The first part says it all. The fact is that the mobile world has tons of power structures, weird issues across all the various devices, and a level of tie-in t

The first part says it all. The fact is that the mobile world has tons of power structures, weird issues across all the various devices, and a level of tie-in to services that no other format had or has. It's extremely hard to break into that market given the entrenchment now with all the apps and such for the two known platforms. I think this is utterly tragic for society. The only way out involves somehow coordinating enough people around rejecting the worst of this stuff (e.g. enough public will to demand that governments outlaw the worst lock-in and privacy-invasion practices etc.) I'm not hopeful.