Shared data, people asked for that. We had a focus group and over 500 people agreed that it was a great idea and really wanted it when they had guns to their heads.

The testing is so that the phones work properly. Look at the Thunderbolt. If we didn’t test that as much as we did then the phone would have performed poorly and the battery life would have been horrible.

Locked bootloaders are for your own protection. If we allowed the bootloaders to be unlocked then a single phone could be updated by a community of developers forever and you wouldn’t want the next best phone. Then where would you be? You’d be out of your contract and have more money in your pocket. What good would that do you?

The Nexus 4 was Google’s decision. You can’t blame us just because we forced our own software on a Nexus device and then delayed updates to the phone repeatedly. Besides, everyone knows that was Samsung’s fault.

The phones aren’t really neutered. This is another case of us being able to offer you a better product. We took some functions out because they just weren’t up to our standards and we knew we could provide a much better option. Yes, by standards I’m referring to them being free and by better option I’m referring to one that cost a crap load of money.

Lastly, the fees are once again for the customer. We could never provide such great advice as “I don’t know, buy an iPhone” or “Use a task killer to get your 3G working” or “Do a factory reset” without those fees. All this stuff costs money and we certainly aren’t going to pay for it.

Good network coverage though