Sometimes I wonder what would happen, as a beginning step, if we mandated the ability to purchase unlocked bare hardware. The law doesn’t need to require (in th

Sometimes I wonder what would happen, as a beginning step, if we mandated the ability to purchase unlocked bare hardware. The law doesn’t need to require (in the first phase) that iOS or something be compatible with it, but you could at least walk into an Apple Store or Nintendo Store and buy the bare hardware, for your own purposes. Then we could claim it as being only about choice, and allowing software competition, without any plausible security risk.