Desktop is much better than mobile in terms of developer and end-user freedom, but it's getting worse over time. It's becoming clear that desktop freedom is vie

Desktop is much better than mobile in terms of developer and end-user freedom, but it's getting worse over time. It's becoming clear that desktop freedom is viewed by the major OS vendors as a holdover of a bygone era and not something they want to maintain forever. There have been some shifts in user base and preferred devices that have ameliorated this a bit, but it seems likely that consumer non-mobile operating systems are going to either vanish (perhaps lingering on in a prosumer/professional variant which will be ghettoized) or else morph into something much closer to a mobile OS (where getting full system access locks you out of the ecosystem).