> and now? When was the last time you installed a new OS on your smartphone? Your game console? Your VR device? Your smart watch? Etc? I get your concern but I

> and now? When was the last time you installed a new OS on your smartphone? Your game console? Your VR device? Your smart watch? Etc? I get your concern but I don't think the analogy holds up. For instance, hacking a gaming console in the 80's is pretty much as hard as it is today, except that people who does this share it more efficiently. Smartphones? You can jailbreak pretty much every platform and in some cases you don't even need to. The thing that is changing in my opinion, is the easyness of access for locked-in software and digital content. For instance, I could spend an hour chasing an ebook and download it to my kindle. Or I can pay a few bucks to license the ebook in the Amazon Kindle Store in less than a minute. Depending of the price tag I will be doing the second option most of the time, even if I don't control the copy. Just because I'm lazy ...