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> "freedom of not worrying about what you install".

Nonsense. Or you could as well talk about "freedom to not hear unhealthy opinions", "freedom from the burden of choosing your profession", etc.




How about "freedom to eat safe food" where you wouldn't have to bring a chemistry kit to every restaurant to test for toxins?

How about "freedom from unnecessarily dangerous professions" where you won't have to concern yourself with being just another casualty in the factory?

Usually when people "give up" freedom they're just trading it for a different form.

It is extremely liberating for non-technical people to be able to browse an app store catalog and install things without concern that it will wreck their device.


> Usually when people "give up" freedom they're just trading it for a different form.

Go tell that to the many people who are fighting for more freedom.


The people that are usually fighting are the ones from which freedom has been forcibly taken. There was no option.

You expect me to have sympathy for people that are whinging about their iPhone not being as open as their Raspberry Pi? Where's your rage about refrigerators or washing machines? Why isn't your car's firmware open-source?

You want freedom, you can get freedom. You want a polished, appliance-like phone, you can choose that.




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