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If I had to guess, I'd say the "core" of the One's design was finished by early 2011 or so, once the Kinect was a definite success. Since then, they've probably just created alternate models with more or less restrictions and RAM or whatnot. That would explain why they could just "flip the DRM switch off" and such.