Yet here I am as a Linux user actually hoping the competition can even catch up on the hardware side of things, since it's all so locked down when Apple does it

Yet here I am as a Linux user actually hoping the competition can even catch up on the hardware side of things, since it's all so locked down when Apple does it. But I have no illusion about a future for the x86 arch on mobile devices, like laptops. There is none. You can bury yourself next to its dead corpse of course. I don't know what you think the competition is, but you don't need a new computer to run old programs. And your new computer won't be better than your old one, if it still compatible in the way you seem to care about. All the competition is moving in the same direction. That you can not run your old legacy programs from 15 years ago on a dual boot with a competing OS. Nobody wants you as a customer with these terms, why would they? You sound needy, difficult and cheap. If you don't even intend to replace your existing software with new software from their store, they wouldn't even want to waste an ad view on you. And the direction of a trillion dollar industry isn't going to be influenced by your lack of being able to run Office '98 on a dual boot. That's actually not how capitalism works. I don't always like it either, but these threats of I'm going to with hold this pocket change money. It's a such a misunderstanding of capitalism. It's like a 15 year old gamers threatening to not buy EA games.