If google controlled the trade codes, your house would have electrical panels that could only be opened with a tool that was only available to google certified tradies, you know, for safety.
If Google's reputation were on the line if anyone's electrical panel broke, or if someone stole all your personal data from your life that they run through that panel then, yeah. I imagine so.
And that electrical panel would still break and now it would have people like me shitting on their reputation at every chance given whether it breaks for me or not.
Because philosophically its a stain, now I likely pay more and i can't have my knowledgeable family in the trade deal with the issue and me with some of the others.
I suppose, but that's pretty nothingy in the grand scheme of things.
And you can do some things with a phone, e.g. hard reset it if it's really broken. What do you want to be able to do with a phone to fix it that you can't do today?
Replace misdesigned components. It shouldn't matter than “most people” don't need or want to use a thing in a particular way, but yet I'm constantly prevented from doing things that are trivial on other platforms and used to be trivial on this one.
> If I buy a Fiat Uno I shouldn't be expecting to be towing a 2-tonne caravan with it.
Sure but you're basically suggesting people shouldn't be able to tow caravans. That since most people won't do it and some who do will overload or take stupid turns and damage their vehicle so it shouldn't be possible for nearly any road vehicles.
>I suppose, but that's pretty nothingy in the grand scheme of things.
Not for me. For me it's another general computing device that can't do general computing.
Some random person installing dodgy apk's and giving em stupid permissions on the other hand doesn't bother me in the grand scheme of things.
