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>whether or not software is proprietary. I think this has made a huge difference, not so much if it is open source our not but how much things have become lock
by baroffoos 8y ago
>whether or not software is proprietary.
I think this has made a huge difference, not so much if it is open source our not but how much things have become locked down. Before if you made a cool program you could hand it out to your friends on a usb stick and run it. These days you have to pay $100 to apple and go through a long approval process before you get listed on the app store. Its the same with all the platforms people use now. They have become more and more locked down pushing the regular user in to simply consuming content and only the corporations with large dev teams are able to make anything.
- csallen 8y agoHow is sending your friends a URL that they can easily send to others any more difficult than handing over a USB stick? Seems far easier to me.
- baroffoos 8y agoNow you need to buy a domain name, understand dns, understand web hosting and rent out a server because many home ISPs and routers don't support hosting servers. Sure you can still do things but we are constantly raising the bar for creating and making consuming easier.
- eecsninja 8y agoNot only that, but even if you could create something in the traditional way (without having to go through all those extra hoops you described), how many of the younger generation know how to run an executable locally (either downloaded, compiled from source, or received on a USB stick) when they've been raised on computer systems where everything takes place in the browser?