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I don't want user choice, I want a computing appliance that Just Works - I don't want to spend all my time being a sysadmin.

I've found OSX to be the best in that regard, there's a single place to find apps to purchase and download, and they Just Work. OS updates Just Work. I plug in peripherals and they Just Work.

The same for my iPhone - much better experience than Android.

I used to think user choice was important, and then I realized I was sacrificing user experience for a freedom that I never exercised.

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I recognize your value system but I feel compelled to point out we are Hacker News. The hacker ethos is flexible open general purpose computing spirit. The hacker ethos is breaking systems & pushing limits.

I don't recognize your values as contributing the the computing universe. I don't recognize them as hackerly.

> I used to think user choice was important, and then I realized I was sacrificing user experience for a freedom that I never exercised.

Once given up this is a freedom you will never get back, and when a government leverages this control to do something like erasing apps off your machine or tracking what you do there will be no choice left but to accept it.

Demand usability and choice from your products. The apples of the world have established a false dichotomy.