I want to reset this perennial argument into new terms for a moment. Apple has long branded itself not as a walled garden but instead as a "human focused techno

I want to reset this perennial argument into new terms for a moment. Apple has long branded itself not as a walled garden but instead as a "human focused technology design" company. From this perspective you might instead see Walled Garden as a symptom of a dominating human focus. Once you're looking at human-driven innovation and technology-driven innovation, you can start to see some major differences. Human-driven pulls money whenever it brings high technology to people's lives in a more synchronized fashion. Technology-driven pulls money when it invents something so new it literally shifts the power structure into groups of those who have it and those who don't. I find it pretty liberating that human-focused innovation is having such a renaissance right now. I don't feel so hurt if it's at a (possibly small, globally) cost to technological innovation since Apple clearly optimizes for psychology. I feel like real technological innovation can still happen as well, but a walled garden acts as a filter that separates those who just made the next poorly designed CRUD application from those who'll get bought. I'll still add that it's a little scary since I have an engineering fear of big monolithic entities like Apple and Google over well-organized, loose-integrated, and smaller guys.