"My life is my own"?? LOL Do you drive? need a license, want to travel outside your country? get a passport. Have a job? pay taxes. Life of your own, only in the Matrix...

It would save these Big companies (Apple, Microsoft, Sony, etc) a lot of grief from the public if they would just say that you are leasing the hardware and not buying it! Selling it to you give one the impression that you can do whatever you want with the hardware. Which is not the case. They produce the hardware and want to control how is used for the life of the device. Which they want to control as well.