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On machines where it's trivial to do so (such as pcs), how many real life users (as opposed to forum haunting online geeks) will install another os?
How many real life users are going to install software from somewhere other than the built in app store on their phone?
Opening the phone to other app stores is just the first step. The second is letting the user choose an app store when they first start their phone similarly to how they already enforce browser choice.
-WhatsApp is now exclusive to the Meta iOS App Store.-
That many real life users.
It's not so trivial, different BIOS'es have different hotkeys to enter setup, different functionality, and device drivers are usually provided certainly only for the main OS.
Perhaps legal obligation to provide proper datasheets (easy to do, ye-es? they already certainly have those, ye-es, otherwise how did they make that Windblows\MockOS driver?) for device manufacturers and sellers (cause I the customer shouldn't care to look for them, everything should be in the box in paper form ; just like all other schematics, if in 1970s you'd tell someone that a complex expensive machine is sold to customers without schematics, people wouldn't believe you, they'd say you're nuts, they'd ask where the regulators are sleeping, and they'd wonder how it's possible to operate a device without schematics), and obligation to not employ various technologies to prevent replacement of onboard devices and loading of unsigned drivers, should exist.
The best part about all this is that such a law could be written so that it equally well applies to a 1970s machine, a today's machine and whatever they'll come up with in year 2066.
Around 5%
It's not that trivial