Thats actually an interesting angle. Sure, the low-margin price pressure has lead to increased consolidation and saving a few cents by having one chip instead of two - unremarkable. But that this exerts a kind of pressure to use the hardware that you got anyway is not immediately obvious, but probably true. Why let it go to waste? Why not collecting a bit of data here and there? Show a few ads, where they are not that annoying, really, who would mind.