Apple is optimizing for the mainstream of the market, which mostly never repairs things (except using licensed repair outlets or the original store) and values slimness and lightness and appearance above repairability.<p>They&#x27;re also locking down the platform more and more. I don&#x27;t think this is some conspiracy to take away user freedom. I think it&#x27;s because anything that makes a platform &#x27;hackable&#x27; also makes it &#x27;pwnable&#x27; by malware. Again they are optimizing for the mainstream of the market, which is mostly users with absolutely zero clue about malware or security. They want to field an OS that apps can&#x27;t easily trojan&#x2F;backdoor and conscript into a botnet or crytolocker your files, etc. Unfortunately hacker types are casualties here.<p>It&#x27;s very, very hard to remain appealing to the hacker crowd while also targeting the mainstream. You&#x27;re targeting two very different local maxima and a lot of what these two camps want is in absolute conflict -- e.g. UX vs. &quot;power&quot; and packability. I actually think Apple is doing a decent job all things considered. Macs are still great for development and are hackable enough, and if I want more hackability I can spring for a $30 Raspberry Pi or run anything I want inside Parallels with the bonus of not borking my main host machine if I mess it up. I am worried about the future though. If they overly &quot;iOS-ify&quot; the Mac they will lose me.