Comment by Aperocky

I just ordered one, and let me tell you something - I didn't expect this to happen.

If I knew - I might still have ordered one, because I like ARM and battery life. But this reaffirms the observed trend of Apple becoming more of an owner of the machine that supposedly I own.

I'll attempt to shut it down (at least now, it still observes /etc/hosts) - but when I can no longer do that, I'll leave Apple forever, hopefully by then other hardware manufacturers have caught up in UX.