Everyone buys their locked down walled-garden devices we are only allowed to use in a handful of profit-maximizing ways and this is what we get. If they liberated and respected the user they'd be another hardware company.
Its kindoff a shame. The people who built the foundations of our industry already knew what was coming decades ago and warned us, but we all thought they were crazy and ignored them. Now look at us. Governments can't even succesfully stand up against the control that these systems have over us.
It's a huge shame! I try not to use the anyone-who-disagrees argument but I genuinely think that anyone who disagrees lacks imagination. We have been robbed of so many possibilities!
This comment is deeply saddening because of how true it is. This is exactly what has driven me to become a FOSS enthusiast, but sometimes I can't help but feel hopeless about the future of tech in general.