Comment Re:Alarmism (Score 1) 439
If this is all of the utmost importance because some people are obsessive and irrational about what's on their devices, then that's fine for obsessive and irrational people and their subcultures. But I can't sympathize with them.
What is it with the "obsessive" and "irrational" labels? Since you seem pretty charged about this, it's clear to me that you do have strong preferences and probably are just as "obsessive" and "irrational" as anyone else here, just maybe not about this particular issue. For example, you certainly didn't "just ignore" this argument. I'm sure there are plenty of software features that you don't like as well as some that don't exist but you wish were available. Instead of just whining about the way things are, with an open platform, you can roll your own and remove the features you don't like and add ones you want. You may not want to make such modifications, but other people certainly do.