Do you not consider the software part of the product? By any reasonable measure, the software is the product, and the hardware enables that product to operate.
> Do you not consider the software part of the product?
No.
> By any reasonable measure, the software is the product, and the hardware enables that product to operate.
That's what they want people to believe. It's actually just a general purpose computer. They put "IP" on it and suddenly they own it forever and control everything people do and if you resist it's felony contempt of business model.
I have run Linux on my Android phones, and Windows on my computers that came with Linux.
Why should a owner of a piece of hardware be locked into one software stack, just because it's the one the device came with?