"Don't just play on your phone. Program it." Easier said than done. Not because it's difficult to learn to code. But because the owner of the phone cannot h

"Don't just play on your phone. Program it." Easier said than done. Not because it's difficult to learn to code. But because the owner of the phone cannot have uid 0 without "jailbreaking". Nor can she write an iPhone app without getting "permission" from Apple. The closed nature of today's "phones" (which are really crippled handheld computers running UNIX) is the biggest impediment to learning to code and, for those who already know how, to getting their own code to run. Give me a phone that lets me use my own bootloader, my own kernel and my own utilities. In turn, I'll add value to what the phones provide out of the box and help the American economy.