Apple wants to put its users in chains and keep them locked to the platform for life. It is important to keep the system closed to third parties like independen

Apple wants to put its users in chains and keep them locked to the platform for life. It is important to keep the system closed to third parties like independent repairers and other operating systems. Once they have their own CPU they can kill off virtualization and hackintosh even though they have no impact on their revenue and make it impossible to run other operating systems on their hardware. Push all software into an app store. I thought the Mac was amazing back in the mid-80s. I was very impressed with the ipod touch and ipad. I owned an early unibody macbook pro. I can understand the benefits of the closed platform with everything micro-managed by Apple. But it is suffocating. I am more than willing to give up trivial advantages for relatively open hardware platforms and software.