Advantages of rooting a nexus?

[TheMarcus]

Root because AOKP is such an amazing ROM.

Sent from my Nexus 4 with AOKP swag

 

[Lanhoj]

Ad-away is a very useful root app. I've been using it for just a couple weeks now but it's great. Any app that you have that is the "free" version with ads. ...

Doesn't that cheat the Developer?
Better solution wouldn't be to...buy the App?

 

[Jon Simon1]

Ad-away is a very useful root app. I've been using it for just a couple weeks now but it's great. Any app that you have that is the "free" version with ads. Will have those ads remove, also the web browser will run a bit faster because there are less ads.

Beats audio is another good root app. The Nexus 7 has pretty bad sound, but with the beats app it makes it a bit better and easier to listen to.

Then there is stickmount to let you use external drives.

And of course titaniumbackup

Useful for ripping off the developers that brought you those great apps? That's a great approach. Instead of being so cheap, why don't you actually buy those apps?