I agree with you. We have these amazing devices in our pockets, but we can only install things on them that are approved by enormous, faceless corporations whos

I agree with you. We have these amazing devices in our pockets, but we can only install things on them that are approved by enormous, faceless corporations whose incentives are often misaligned with our own well-being. I don't advocate removing all safety checks from phones, but making somebody jump through 15 hoops to install a non-corporate-approved app is stupid. Secondly, these companies stop a lot of badware, but they also act as gatekeepers to stop anti-establishmentware that may be for the public benefit at the detriment of the gatekeepers' stranglehold on power. In other words, these devices are systems of perpetuating the status-quo and safeguarding the profits of the ones making them. This in itself I'm not upset about: of course capital seeks to cement its own power. The real issue I have is how much potential is destroyed as collateral damage.