apple has the pr money to create status gadgets and use the profit to attack alll kinds of efforts in reverse direction, to show the users that their gadget is not superior but defected by design because it takes their freedom to install what they want..

if we lived in an apple dominated space even the web browser risks being banned and i m sure some of the end users you mention would applaud it.

people like rms are there to wake us from short sighted dreams.