We've sort of been at this point for a long time, though, the abstraction bar is just being shifted up. Previously, the bar was at the firmware level, where yo

We've sort of been at this point for a long time, though, the abstraction bar is just being shifted up. Previously, the bar was at the firmware level, where you will never fully control the black boxes governing the security chips, DRM implementations and real time OSes running on the microcontrollers inside the CPU. Now the OS (especially on Apple devices) is almost becoming like the firmware layer itself, so deeply integrated and locked to the machine, but with the freedom to run other OSes/environments on top. At least you can (usually) still unlock the OS level...