Exactly. And the people who don't see this are those with an engineering-like mind that just these as computers with parts and their own relationship to the dev

Exactly. And the people who don't see this are those with an engineering-like mind that just these as computers with parts and their own relationship to the device. And perhaps for that group there should be another product on the market that satisfies those needs. I think Google wanted Android to be that, but as we all know, as they scale to serve the same addressable market as Apple, the device becomes more Apple like and locked down. There isn't really much that can be done.