1) Apple is actually doing things that limit what you can do on your laptop. There&#x27;s issues where you have to disable security policies to install OpenVpn or HomeBrew on El Capitan.<p>2) Apple sees laptops and iOS devices as serving different purposes. It&#x27;s no secret that there are things you can&#x27;t do on iOS. While Apple is trying to make iOS more capable in some ways, in other cases, their view is &quot;go buy a laptop or desktop if you can&#x27;t do what you need on iOS&quot;. It&#x27;s not a crazy view. I&#x27;m giving the new restrictions in Mac OS X a serious side-eye--to the extent that I&#x27;m halfway considering going back to Linux on the desktop, even though I dislike Linux desktops. However, I find the restrictions on my iPhone painless. I&#x27;ll just never even consider making an iPad my primary machine.