It really is a shame. Sure, the vast majority use phones as a consumer product. Maybe they are happy with that but for any engineer it really is wasted potentia

It really is a shame. Sure, the vast majority use phones as a consumer product. Maybe they are happy with that but for any engineer it really is wasted potential. The tool could be so much more if we just had sensible operating systems and open hardware interfaces. All these manufacturers are also not reliable for notebooks either. Microsoft belongs in the offender list with trying to enforce secure boot and similar mechanisms we still only have to endure on phones as of today.