<i>How is creating a consumer electronics device evil? Because people want it to be a computer? Because it'll somehow erode the market for full-fledged computers?</i><p>Yes. Zittrain wrote a book about it: <a href="http://futureoftheinternet.org/" rel="nofollow">http://futureoftheinternet.org/</a><p><i>computers as such are a usability and maintenance disaster for 95% of the population</i><p>This can be fixed (see OLPC), but all the companies are just locking everything down rather than innovating. There's a huge lost opportunity here.