I think a lot of these issues actually could be addressed.<p>Right now, it&#x27;s essentially a choice between iOS and Android.  No serious third platform (Windows Phone, Tizen, BBX, third-party Android ROMs like Cyanogen, etc.)<p>Apple is decent (but not great) user experience, but has a few serious flaws: Apple&#x27;s morality policing (and other restrictions) keeping apps users do want off the platform, as well as restricting people to using Apple cloud services for a lot of functionality, and not allowing some core OS functionality to be overridden.  Apple&#x27;s cloud services would be less of a problem if they didn&#x27;t suck.<p>Android (well, the two versions; Google vs. the open version) have much more flexibility, but kind of suck. (way better than they used to be, but still inferior to iOS on a strict functionality basis).<p>I think it&#x27;s inevitable that more and more computing moves to mobile (the next 2b people on the Internet may ONLY use mobile).  Maybe Apple&#x27;s cloud and policies will improve.  Maybe Android will improve in quality.  Maybe a new platform will emerge.<p>&quot;Locked down&quot; is awesome IFF it is locked down to the owner; if the owner has to do some small amount of work to lock down a different config, that&#x27;s ideal.  The &quot;owner&quot; might be an individual for a personal phone, or a corporation for a fleet of phones.