[GW150914]

In many cases they buy it because it’s a walled garden and locked down. When the alternative is Android it’s not hard to see why. People here seem to miss that while some people want freedom to experiment and play, others want the freedom to just have the device work as intended and not have to worry about fraudulent or malicious apps.

It would be weird if a dev preferred the lockdown, and weirder still if my grandmother didn’t.

[scarface74]

I’m a Dev and my phone is not my computer. I want a device that “just works” where I can download any random app with abandon and have some type of assurance that an app can’t do crazy things.

I am much more careful about what gets downloaded on my computer but I want to be able to do anything.

[jsjohnst]

> It would be weird if a dev preferred the lockdown

I’m a Dev and I prefer the lockdown, on my daily driver device that is. If it was forced on every device, I’d be opposed, but having it be something I can opt out of on my dev devices is perfect IMHO.

[dwb]

I'm also a dev and I prefer the lockdown. There's plenty of other computing equipment that is not locked down, and the restrictions only really apply to a tiny amount of use-cases. For instance, I would have had no trouble learning to code if I was growing up now on a modern Macbook – or even an iPad. (In fact it would be loads better than QuickBASIC. I am so envious of techie kids now.)