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And what, exactly, does all of this have to do with ARM vs x86?

> Locked down to oblivion, everything requiring to be signed, no i-know-what-im-doing option in the settings anywhere to just disable everything and get on with your day.

If you really know what you are doing, you should know how to disable and enable SIP.




>And what, exactly, does all of this have to do with ARM vs x86?

The transition from x86 to ARM gives them the opportunity to impose these restrictions. Back in the day, companies wouldn't even dream of trying to pull something as radical as this, but now that we've had a decade of smartphones proving how you can get away with not allowing customers to install their own operating system on their phone, the leverage is there. It's not ARM itself that worries me, it's the transition from x86 to anything (POWER9, ARM, etc.)




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