Making assumptions again neophyte? Someone sure doesn't like being called a fanboi, although he CLEARLY is one. De nile is not just a river in egypt!!!
And sure companies have that right, but WE were just pointing out that it's a RIDICULOUS policy, hoss.
Brand purity? What are you a quaker? You need to stop posting on this forum, no-one likes you. Really. Your just starting trouble, constantly. You sir, are a TROLL.
Sorry that no one likes me, too bad really. yes brand purity. Not sure how old you are, but marketing, sales and of course business as a whole has changed dramatically these last 10 years. With the internet, and now mobile phone market and all it's endless streams of info input, overload and saturation, things can get lost and obscured in all that data. It is a very real situation to deal with for those in business. Kids today, and even young adults grew up with the internet and mobile computing, they cannot see the forest thru the trees so to speak. They have been immersed in it.
So to the younger generation, it may seem, tyrannical, power crazed, or ridiculous, it's mostly not having an understanding of what is going on or why some one would do it. When a company is public and has share holders to appease, they have to make those kinds of decisions. They are beholden to them as much as the customer. But if the customer comes first and are happy, then shareholders should be too.
This is where Android comes in.
I have complained about Google not having over the phone customer assistance or tech support, but maybe thats just the way it will be from now on. Things do change. Look at the record industry, and how music was distributed and marketed years ago to now. Heck i don't even know anyone who has cd's anymore. I don't even have any dvd's either. i either burn my own blu ray or rent them and download them. Yellow pages? Who uses them either, I look everything up online now, address, numbers, info, resturaunt menus, store hours.
these other companies, to you, are doing things the old way I guess it would seem. Maybe it's my age showing thru. I am just an old dino with an android.
that no one likes.....(sigh)