> I feel that people sticking up for Apple here is some variant of the Stockholm syndrome I think Apple offers a deal that has it's good and bad points and yo

> I feel that people sticking up for Apple here is some variant of the Stockholm syndrome I think Apple offers a deal that has it's good and bad points and you are free to buy from many competitors. And yet, dozens of times per year on HN, we're told that Apple is essentially executing William Wallace and freedom itself for routine decisions that seem entirely consistent with it's longstanding policies on private API's, sideloading, end runs around enterprise deployment, etc. > We're heading for a world where advanced users might not be allowed to interact with their devices because They (et al.) Know Best. Presumably if this is vital and important to advanced users they can choose a device that allows them to do this. > Protecting knowledgeable users from running arbitrary code is generally a pretty solved problem. In strawmanville, every problem is 'generally pretty much solved'. 'Just let knowledgable users do it' is non-serious imho; anything 'knowledgable users' can do without a lot of effort/money you should assume anyone can and will do it. Jailbreaking has sometimes been associated with 'advanced users', unless you were in China and the guy who sold you the phone did it for you.