prevents me from outright doing many things I am used to be able to do at the moment. If a PC is broken, I can load any software I want on to it, from external sources. I can take parts out of it and place them in other PCs. I can flexibly modify the PCs workings to solve any problem. These new devices either have no flexibility, or are rapidly losing it. In many cases you cannot load any software from an external source of your choosing. You can only get software on the device on a strictly per-person basis, through an approved channel wholly dependent upon the machine working normally. This 'per-person basis' is the really troubling thing, why? Well it rules out a whole class of software that has long existed that is essential: portable / self-contained software that runs externally and doesn't integrate to the device permanently (does not have to be installed / uninstalled). Portable and independently-functioning software covers the vast majority of the software I use for my work. If the device is infected, one needs to install an anti-virus from an external source. One needs to be able to work with the machine in a compromised environment where you cannot rely upon the internet connection, or even being able to install / uninstall software. The push also to 'cloud storage' wrecks havoc with the notion of loading anything whatsoever into the device. It is a horribly unreliable system of dependence. The latest Google tablets