There are valid concerns, Kinect always watching you,
Your phone knows where you are
(location data, BTS triangulation, GPS location), your GPS knows your exact location as well, Google owns all the files you upload, no matter how private and you worry about a little camera that watches your movement and doesn't send a feed anywhere.
and I know for a fact that the TV features of the X1 will not work for me, due to a cable box that's needed to decrypt the encrypted TV signal.
Nobody forces you to use them.
No used games is also a bummer, many people choose to buy used games because of the lower price point.
Nobody said there won't be any used games. To the contrary, Microsoft was pretty clear about that - they said that used games will work and they're working on an activation system for those as well. They've already mentioned re-selling games over XBox Live.
The only way Steam, and Steam-like services, including the inability to re-distribute digital copies, is only justifiable because of the lower price that the game is available at.
...what if you
could re-sell digital copies? Microsoft is introducing a system based on software activation, not owning the actual software. Whether you have the software installed or not or whether you have the disc is no longer important - what's important is that you have it registered so for all intents and purposes, they
can and
might introduce a system of trading the activation codes. The new owner of the license would simply re-download - it's
that simple.
Unless Microsoft will offer discounts for brand new games in the weeks after release, a common practice in Steam's, and other PC distribution services' business models, and discount and reduce the price of old games, then only will the inability to resell games be justifiable.
The
"inability" that was debunked already.
Of course, Microsoft has confirmed a system where you can trade used digital copies, but who knows how MS will curate that? In order to provide a profit margin, would there be a meaningful discount for buying used games?
Here you just contradict yourself. Earlier you said you can't re-sell used games, now you say you can
(because you can), except Microsoft oversees it. I'd laugh my pants off if they introduced an auction system that allows the seller to put up any price he/she wants for a given game... or better yet, a system of sending games as gifts like on Steam. Oh, that'd be a field day of all field days.
I'll be honest - Microsoft announced a few innovations and most of those can turn out either horribly bad or... incredibly good and game-changing. Of course the Internet is the Internet and users will assume the worst, but let's not jump to conclusions before we have more information.