Couldn’t have said it better myself. This is what they’ve done and are continuing to do to phones. We talk about the Apple and Google’s “walled gardens” but it’s even more than that. It’s about only allowing “trusted” applications to run, on “trusted” operating systems, with “trusted” drivers and “trusted” hardware, for “your security”, to “protect you” (from yourself). But it’s really about control, complete control, not just of our devices but of us as people.

That is what they intend to do to all computing devices. Over time, gradually. They know they can’t do it overnight and force it down people’s throats, because it’s fundamentally anti-freedom, people will resist, rebel, start to switch to devices and systems that allow them to take back their personal and computing autonomy, using technology to enable their own goals instead of what the manufacturers and services “allow”. So they have to slowly creep it in. People still resist and rebel, but they keep pushing ever so subtly towards more control for them and less control for you. One step back is followed by two steps forward, then another step back when people resist, then another two steps forward. Progress keeps being made, despite the resistance. They will keep normalizing it until people say “well of course they have to protect <x>” and we forget that the freedom to decide what we ourselves are willing to trust so we can do what we want with the hardware and software we own is a fundamental and necessary human right.