I usually don&#x27;t get annoyed at fans wearing rose-tinted glasses (aka fanboyism), but I feel that people sticking up for Apple here is some variant of the Stockholm syndrome. 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. Protecting knowledgeable users from running arbitrary code is generally a pretty solved problem. There are layers of trust in the system, and human connections that keep the system alive. This delegation of critical thinking to Apple is an unfortunate path.<p>P.S. I say all of this as someone who has recently converted to iOS from Android after many years of loving Google Nexus devices, and wanted to see what the integrated design of the iPhone 6s Plus was like. I absolutely don&#x27;t support ANY of the major technology companies as people who won&#x27;t do the wrong thing so that they can make more money. They&#x27;re all self-interested actors! We should never forget that. They can be just as evil as big oil or the textile industry.<p>EDIT: to fix phrasing and the omission of a couple words