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The open Internet’s five deadliest enemies
- saraid216 15y agoI expected Facebook to be on that list...
- scoot 15y ago6. Walled gardens
- jerrya 15y agoNow, a year from now, five years from now, I'd like someone to explain to me why Google, when confronted with Facebook and Twitter chose to make Google+ a mostly walled garden (can't link to comments, no api) when the "obvious disruptive, jujitsu" move would've been to be the massive and open player for others to build on. But yeah, walled gardens are a huge problem.
- joedevon 15y agoJerry, That is a great question. Personally I think Plus was a huge blunder. Steve Jobs recognized that PCs won the war. He saw that growth was in mobile and tried to build the best mobile device. #Winner. The main thing keeping people at Facebook is that everyone you know is there. And it's decent enough. But if they start to screw up, people will switch and not miss it. Just watch reruns of comics unleashed. It is jarring how everyone talks about their MySpace page, then listening to commercials advertising Facebook pages. Search on the other hand is harder to switch or copy. Yet Google is squandering their core competency. I'm on DuckDuckGo. Many other techies are. And that's where it begins...ask Yahoo... Page listened to Jobs about focus. But he should have built something innovative. Go where the puck will be. NOT where it is. Google hires PHDs. Their employees are a poor fit for a PLUS-CENTRIC company.
- jiggy2011 15y agoI think walled gardens only become a serious problem when you also have hardware that is locked to them. At least if you have choice then the most popular websites etc must become that way by providing something that people want. If your hardware is locked to a particular server provider for something, apps , music etc then you have no choice.
- adamneilson 15y ago#6. Trolls