OFSO,
Very true but which of us normal people has more than one device ?
You and your partner. You asking other people for help. etc. etc.
There are various circumstances I can think of. My original statement was based on support, for example, if someone came on here wanting help with their Android..... you'll very likely have a different device than they do and therefore your assistance to them may be as good as useless.
I can see you dangling a carrot, but I'm not going to bite as we could be going back and forth until the cows come home.
Suffice to say however, that your opinions about Apple sound like they are somewhat misguided. For example, you can mess about with Apple kit all you like, after all, OS X is BSD at heart, and similarly jailbreaking your iPhone/iPad will also yield you all the geek level access you desire.
Anyhow, I think we'll leave it at that and agree to disagree.