I've never even heard of that before, and I'm terminally online. Anyway, desktop computers aren't really the main problem here. For example, Apple Macs offer v

I've never even heard of that before, and I'm terminally online. Anyway, desktop computers aren't really the main problem here. For example, Apple Macs offer vastly more personal freedom than Apple iPhones. If iPhones behaved like Macs in that respect, then we might not be having this debate. To the extent that Macs have been increasingly locked down over the past 15 years, it's mostly just copying the iPhone, porting the "features" over from one platform to the other.