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by napierzaza 5786 days ago
When it comes to cell phones, the consumers and the market is actually the cell phone manufacturer and the carrier. Not the user. So yeah, the carriers wanted their cripple-ware and Google lost, so did the consumer.

Wired suggested that Google could have done more to get around this so that the Nexus 1 was available to everyone, but they didn't.