Well it was apple that started it and now everybody is just following suit ... If people demanded root on the original 2007 iPhone when realized what really we

Well it was apple that started it and now everybody is just following suit ... If people demanded root on the original 2007 iPhone when realized what really were the capabilities of the device the walled garden model would have been DOA. People are well trained by now with consoles, tablets, phones and thermostats that it is totally ok for someone else to tell you what to do with the hardware you own ... and only a couple of old (30+) farts like us that remember the wild west years of the internet and computing are kicking against the trend.