Because the market has spoken and clearly wants what Apple and Samsung and HTC are selling. The user base of Hacker News isn&#x27;t that of the world. Not everyone does their job in front of a computer, and the idea of making this, to them, miraculous device in their pocket a computer is terrifying. They don&#x27;t want full control of the computer they already have at home.<p>Answering your question: It doesn&#x27;t have to remove rights, but the economics of making a device that doesn&#x27;t makes that device unfeasible.