[deelowe]

So, you'd rather them offer devices that could cause you to lose your contract or that carriers refuse to activate service on? Google has to play by the rules of the carriers or they'd simply not allow the devices on their networks. What exactly would you prefer in this case? I don't believe simply ignoring the flag is an option(if they actually wanted to release the nexus 7 on certain carriers).

Either way, the original assertion that the device is hamstrung by Google in all scenarios isn't true. It's only disabled when used on networks that specifically disallow tethering.