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This seems fundamentally at odds with Apple's philosophy that they're providing you a rented appliance they control and which you have temporary access to.

I'm sure you can remove most and/or all Mac OS files, but they're increasingly using trusted computing and even designing their own chips to increase the control they have over the devices (and correspondingly limit user control).

They sell this as a security feature these days, but the appliance model predates that and security is kind of just along for the ride.

I'm glad to see that people feel strongly that they should have control over the files on their system. I'd like to see that help move us toward users having full control over their computers.