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by bryanculver 1211 days ago
Will they make a couple more $ out of this? Maybe.

I suspect they'd rather not have a proliferation of developers farming out their profiles and dealing with it on the service/support side. Developers with pseudo-ownership of strangers devices and users who don't fully understand what they are agreeing to with tying their device to a unknown developer can't be fun.