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You can do whatever you want inside the garden, but moving away from it is becoming increasingly harder and harder - hence walled garden. you can't bring your
by Xelbair 1y ago
You can do whatever you want inside the garden, but moving away from it is becoming increasingly harder and harder - hence walled garden.
you can't bring your software with you, you can't bring your licenses with you, and all services are available only inside it.
- doublerabbit 1y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted but this is exactly it. You're forced by what's given to you and can only use within the garden on only the device you own.
- lokar 1y agoDifferent platforms have always had this property. Was VAX/VMS a walled garden because you had to replace software switching to BSD?
- ubermonkey 1y agoI mean, by that standard Linux is a walled garden, because you probably can't take all your apps and data with you to another system without significant overhead. I'm no spring chicken. I've had painful migrations. I'm not interested in tools that don't have an exit. Nothing about a normal Mac setup is locked-in. I could migrate my data to Linux, I expect, with minimal hassle. I mean, I wouldn't, because I enjoy the network effects of using the Apple ecosystem, and I find MacOS more pleasing to interact with than any Linux window manager I've yet seen. But it's absolutely possible for me to leave, and simple to do so. There's no lock in.