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In mobile land, closed carrier heritage combined with Apple's product vectors may leave us with only closed options. A confluence of interests -- commercial (get your non-pirated content only from me!), governmental (cyber defense!), and user (I want to be safe!) -- will find that outcome attractive. Our generative and hacker-friendly world will be replaced by a sterile world of sealed aluminum.

Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. From what I saw, Apple does not just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world. [...] They are Microsoft and Intel rolled into one when it comes to mobile computing. [...] They are taking over as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.