[$] The future for general-purpose computing
There can be no doubt that general-purpose computing has been a boon to the
world. The ability to run different kinds of programs, from various
sources, including bought from companies, written from scratch, and, well,
built from source, is something that we take for granted on many—most—of
the computing devices that we own.
But that model seems to be increasingly disappearing in many kinds of devices,
including personal computers, as a recent kerfluffle in the Apple world
helps to demonstrate.