&gt;  I feel that people sticking up for Apple here is some variant of the Stockholm syndrome<p>I think Apple offers a deal that has it&#x27;s good and bad points and you are free to buy from many competitors. And yet, dozens of times per year on HN, we&#x27;re told that Apple is essentially executing William Wallace and freedom itself for routine decisions that seem entirely consistent with it&#x27;s longstanding policies on private API&#x27;s, sideloading, end runs around enterprise deployment, etc.<p>&gt; We&#x27;re heading for a world where advanced users might not be allowed to interact with their devices because They (et al.) Know Best.<p>Presumably if this is vital and important to advanced users they can choose a device that allows them to do this.<p>&gt; Protecting knowledgeable users from running arbitrary code is generally a pretty solved problem.<p>In strawmanville, every problem is &#x27;generally pretty much solved&#x27;. &#x27;Just let knowledgable users do it&#x27; is non-serious imho; anything &#x27;knowledgable users&#x27; can do without a lot of effort&#x2F;money you should assume anyone can and will do it. Jailbreaking has sometimes been associated with &#x27;advanced users&#x27;, unless you were in China and the guy who sold you the phone did it for you.