This entire strategy means the manufacturers are SCREWING YOU the buyer. Why? Because the engineering and hardware has already been DONE and placed into the product, so YOU have already PAID for all of that.
This has been happening for some time with some other products. Some of the offshore test equipment, like oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers and such, you can "unlock" them the same way for better bandwidth and other features. So all of that is ALREADY "in" the instrument.
