Vincent96 Just who is the "owner" that "has root" (IMHO much better term than "user' in current context) of the device is not trivial for a mobile one.. Clearly, the current view of the provider of grOS is a misguided usurpation: I paid my own good money for the hardware, I financially support the system software maker, I own the system. But when the system is a mobile device that can be LSSed (lost, stolen or sequestered), the owner can't be whoever happens to be in simultaneous physical possession of the device and control of the person normally using it. There ARE solutions: For instance, the owner might be whoever is in a possession of a software token, unique to the hardware/OS combination that can be safely kept away from the location where both the device and the user happen to be present. There are others, and the GOS providers would be well advised to design the most appropriate one, instead of "going the way of Apple". Thus qualifying one of the above posts as "a very idiotic statement" appears to me to border on being an intellectual boomerang.