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My understanding of the "double edged sword" idiom is that the tool has both downsides and upsides. What are the upsides to restricting what I can do with the hardware I paid for?

>>mzajc+(OP)
Revenue for the device manufacturer for licensing sales in their walled garden "store".

Since Apple and Google are public companies I guess we should all buy stock and reap the financial rewards of destroying computing freedom. >sigh<

>>mzajc+(OP)
If done well, a lot of identity theft surface area is secured - you get an integrated yubikey more or less.