> they aren't really a computer It's not?
It has a CPU, RAM, user-loadable software programs, etc.. Consider that people even hack on games & make new ones and modified versions. Even the old Atari 2600 has new titles coming out each year. > I don't think that they have any malicious features. Being proprietary is itself a malicious feature. Like a virus or backdoor it subverts the control of my computer to someone else. They now get to decide what my computer will or will not do; not me.
