[rimantas]

You know, I've learned (and still am) a lot about computers and programming from books too. The paper books. Those horrible horrible things that allowed consumption only. Also there are millions of people using desktops for consumption only. So no, no discussion about this. False dichotomies are not something I am going to discuss.

[maxerickson]

Right, because the limitations of paper are largely an arbitrary software implementation detail.

(I do think it is arbitrary; It would cost Apple very little to offer some mechanism to turn off the safety of only running apps from the app store; the small impact of jailbreaks on the ecosystem suggests it wouldn't introduce many new problems)