>Not sure how you can have the software without the hardware.

You can have good software. You can have bad software. The hardware does not make it good or bad. The software is whatever the devs made it to be utilizing whatever hardware on which it runs. The user is ultimately responsible for the software they use whether they installed it or it is preinstalled.

Again, blaming the horse because the rider is doing bad things is not the right approach

> In your example, I can just look thru your HN history and see you posted dozens of times yesterday.

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China? I don't use a device to do this.