Each year is a planned step towards further death of the platform. Just found out the other day with a potentially malfunctioning app on Android, that one can no longer see /data/data/ even from ADB. One used to be able to browse that directory structure in a file manager, but then it was only via ADB, and now not at all, apparently. That is just one of many aspects of the OS taken away from the owner of the device. (Not “user”.)

Android might be worse than iOS, in that they sold it as open, and then slowly took that away, the death by 1000 cuts approach. So more people feel comfortable using it, not realizing their freedoms are being removed with each new iteration. Apple at least said, “no it’s closed, so you have a choice whether you are ok with that or not” right up front.

Of course, as choices dwindle down to two American Corpo OSes, we all still lose in the end.