You’ve never been to rural Japan if you think they primarily use public transport.

Hell, even in the outskirts of Tokyo most people have cars and drive.

That said tho, there’s no excuse for urban city centers to not be walkable.

Because chrome doesn’t make any money

It’s unfortunate, but AI image generators will make exactly what you want, royalty free.

A better comparison would be an iPhone. Apple has locked that down so much that it’s impossible to install something like CrowdStrike falcon, thus it’s not possible for something like this to happen.

Microsoft is saying if the EU would let them, they too could lock down their platform enough to prevent this from happening.

However, I would prefer to maintain control over my device and do what I want with it, instead of just what Apple/Microsoft want; even if that means I might break my device.

You could absolutely install software on Windows 3.5 that would crash the system.