Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed

This might be where the internet really gets forked, as it's been predicted over and over since the '90s.

On one side, we'll have a "clean", authority-sanctioned "corpweb", where everyone is ID'ed to the wazoo; on the other, a more casual "greynet" galaxy of porn and decentralized communities will likely emerge, once all tinkerers get pushed out of corpnet. It could be an interesting opportunity to reboot a few long-lost dreams.

... until your phone and OS web browser will refuse to connect to the "greynet", or that just attempting to do so has you categorized as being a potential outlaw.

... that in turn will trigger a new age of open devices, browsers and OSes.

There are only a few companies that can produce state of the art chips and those companies are easily regulated by the government.

These open devices would be running slow hot CPUs compared to the newer faster chips that the non-open devices would be running.

You don't need state of the art. We had supercomputers in our pockets a decade ago.

Still most consumers are unwilling to pay a premium for open hardware software. A thinner phone with a faster experience and better battery life seems to be all we care about. C.F. how repairable devices are a marginal part of the smartphone market.

Most people are not even willing to pay a few cents extra for a banana that didn’t cause cancer on plantation workers.