[throwaway22032]

The issue with this is that inevitably the locked down devices, which will end up being 98%+ of the market, become required for ordinary living, because no-one will develop for the 2%.

Open hardware is essentially useless if I need to carry both an open phone and a phone with the parking app, the banking app, messenger app to contact friends, etc.

[charcircuit]

For security reasons it makes sense for them to be different devices. People and services may not want to allow insecure devices to communicate with them.

[immibis]

Why? It's not like the insecure device doesn't have my identity key on it. If I program it to spam people, I go to jail for spamming.

[charcircuit]

It would be easier to spoof such identities and some services may not want to deal with the overhead of using the legal system. Spammers today already can be taken to court, but in practice people don't do that.

[jen20]

If only you went to jail for spamming.