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> They are mostly on the wrong side in the war on general-purpose computing.

All modern Chromebooks can be put into developer mode without opening the case, which gives you root access.

They're pretty hostile to it though. With normal developer mode, every boot it actively prompts the user to factory wipe it!

And until very recently you could install whatever apk you wanted on your android phone.

You still can.

That's changing though.