Mobile devices are locked-down way too hard. From the hardware, to the OS, to the SDK, to the walled-garden store. There's just no room for innvoation, and wher

Mobile devices are locked-down way too hard. From the hardware, to the OS, to the SDK, to the walled-garden store. There's just no room for innvoation, and where there is, there's no way to count on what little bit the manufacturer has provide will even exist next month. And keeping "old" devices around to contiue doing work the way you wanted is near impossible.