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In many ways, we're trading size, convenience, and design for freedom. Consider: a large number of geeks can take apart, swap, and add the components of a desktop. A smaller number can take apart a laptop capably. A very tiny number can take apart an iPad, iPhone, or Android phone. Even the new Android phones are coming out with heavily encrypted boot loaders that prevent rooting and loading custom roms.
I still try take apart desktops and laptops occasionally just to keep in touch with the hardware that I run on. But even that leaves a large class of devices that i can't touch. I worry occasionally that we're slouching our way to big brother.