I humbly but strongly disagree: To me it just sounds like learned helplessness but I don't even agree with the premise that we have been helpless. We have a th

I humbly but strongly disagree: To me it just sounds like learned helplessness but I don't even agree with the premise that we have been helpless. We have a thriving PC ecosystem with Linux and BSDs, most of which I would consider no less secure than my iPhone; in fact, those are the platforms on which we backup our private data. The issue has been the incredibly fragmented landscape of mobile computing. The free mobile ecosystem has never had the chance to mature because it did not have a reliable foundation (like PC-compatible desktops[0]) to continue building upon. Android too suffers from it, and now Google is trying adopt mainline Linux[1]. Practically, developing a mobile device/OS has been a Sisyphean task. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plans-for-mainline-linux-kernel-support-in-android/?comments=1 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/google-outlines-plan...