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Many companies that exist today seemingly couldn't begin in 2016.The major computing platforms now have gatekeepers (Google Play, iOS App Store).Personal computers with attached storage are disappearing and giving way to thin clients attached to the mainframe - without computing power, individuals have less choice.I think we need to focus far more on hardware - it's never looked darker - Secure Boot and the ME make me worried for the future of x86, even.I'll be fine as long as my old machines survive - but how are businesses going to produce mass market software when all the popular hardware is locked down?Just to pick an arbitrary example - how does a project like Bitcoin take off when all we have are tivoized devices that won't run un"trusted" code? The community of a few hundred hardware hackers isn't big enough.Not only that, despite the fact that 256GB of flash can be had for ~40GBP, the latest smartphones come with piffling amounts of storage and seemingly no expandable slots. It's a deliberate design decision to force the use of the network.The IBM compatible desktop computer produced the revolution we see today. What's the next step?