[Guvante]

I think the huge ecosystem of apps out there thoroughly disproves your point.

Honestly I love the permission scheme of the app stores compared to my desktop. Being able to control what the app can do is massively better than the desktop system of "runs as user".

On the topic of root, I would hope we would work towards a time when it wasn't necessary rather than using it as a crutch.

[venomsnake]

On desktop you have more control - you can firewall, code inject, rewrite dlls, crack, cheatengine stuff and so on. Root means ownership of your device. And not being confined to a walled garden ... so while a future in which root is not used is terrific, a future in which root does not belong to the user is terrifying ...

[Guvante]

I would agree that root being an option is a huge win for consumers but I still believe that root not being the default is good for computing as a whole.

[madez]

With "Trusted Computing" being root is not sufficient to own your device.