> Like how is it in the interest of handset manufacturers to let you have a general purpose computer that could run unsigned (by them) code? Perhaps naïvely, I

> Like how is it in the interest of handset manufacturers to let you have a general purpose computer that could run unsigned (by them) code? Perhaps naïvely, I imagine that selling me hardware is in their interest. Is control of what runs on the hardware they manufacture really worth more than selling that hardware more widely? Granted, there aren’t a whole lot of us who want to run our own OSes, but we do exist. How much money do the manufacturers make by maintaining control? Or do they keep it because of contracts (perhaps like HDMI or other copyright-monopoly-enforcing standards) requiring them to prevent users from owning their hardware?