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I'm not as quick to discount the point as the others here, Look at it this way, assume in the not so distant future you can do it all on the tablet as opposed
by howeyc 15y ago
I'm not as quick to discount the point as the others here,
Look at it this way, assume in the not so distant future you can do it all on the tablet as opposed to the desktop and no longer nead desktops, having them die a slow, slow death: Counter-Strike, WoW, Development (Github text editing, Cloud9 IDE,... etc), word processing, browsing, you get the idea.
But instead, the applications are vetted and controlled by the tablet OS maker. Now instead of law makers trying to get every search engine to block something, or tear-down registars all over the world, they just go to tablet OS maker 1 and 2 and have them take down access to website/app. No more website/app for anyone as desktops are dead and the tablet is so locked to shit you can't change a thing (secure boot anyone?)
Now, I'm not sure death is as current as suggested, but I see the trend the blog post is referring too.
- tehayj 15y agoI agree but only if more of the stupid masses pay for getting locked up in something like the Apple walled garden. They trade some of their freedom for thinking even less. Considering how "smart" the general human population is they will be happy to opt in for no choice just to have the latest iOS device and think they are cool.
- roc 15y agoWhy would Apple be any more willing to turn off web access to a domain than the dominant ISP or backbone provider or the dominant PC vendor or even just the ISP/DNS provider for the site in question? It seems silly to imply the situation is somehow more plausible/likely with a tablet-based computing landscape.
- howeyc 15y agoI don't believe any ISP/DNS provider is "willing" to turn off web access to any paying customer (domain owner). However, it has nothing to do with willingness but instead with "force" (Judges, Congressman, Clothing manufacturers, ...), people and companies don't like paying fines and going to jail. Let's say there's 250 domains that are unliked, on 5 different registrars, 10 different ISPS, but only two tablet OSs with walled gardens, which place would you logically force to stop access? Of course if it's apps you don't like instead of domains the answer is trivial. Now, we are not in this scenario right now no matter how horrific you think walled gardens are. Probably not worth speculating too much further as the future is hard to predict, and this is just a possibility of the blog post trend extrapolated forward X number years.