i think they will. or worse yet they can make it without bios at all just device tree and all that garbage that phones do. then make it subsction based,filled with ai,cloud streamed only. no apps outside store. but thats too much orwellian stuff for now,i think what will happen is the locking bios thing for now.

what do you think?

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    16 hours ago

    There will always be a couple companies going against the norm and make open devices. Or computers that are fully customizable IE just stick a different hard drive in there or whatever. I don’t think this will ever happen, regardless.

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      6 hours ago

      It doesn’t need to happen 100%, they simply need to kick any manufacturer making such open devices out of the affordable range for the masses, after all it’s only the poor that need not have access to knowledge.

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        5 hours ago

        Adding to this, it has already started happening on phones in the form of propreitary carrier locked devices being artificially cheaper than normal phones that you don’t even “own”, they are going for the ultra budget range first, then climb up from there, it will take a while to jump to computers but I absolutely see no reason for it to not start happening, after all the majority of users use Windows anyways, it can spread slowly.