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This is true, but at least when I buy into the M$ ecosystem I can still use my machine for whatever silly other things I'd like--Windows (for now, anyways) is s
by angersock 13y ago
This is true, but at least when I buy into the M$ ecosystem I can still use my machine for whatever silly other things I'd like--Windows (for now, anyways) is still not solely devoted to content consumption and walled gardens.
- VikingCoder 13y agoYou think "the web" is a walled garden? Or is solely devoted to content consumption? I can create YouTube videos from my Chromebook, for instance. I'm never getting rid of my Windows desktop machine. Like, never. But I'm never getting rid of my Kindles, either. They're totally, completely different from each other. My Chromebook fills its own niche, too.
- DanBC 13y agoI wouldn't use the term "walled garden", but Chromebooks are almost perfect for me. The only thing stopping me getting one is my terrible Internet. (Which will go in 2 or so months). Once I have no Internet I'm not sure I can do much with a Chromebook. Unless I've put some other Linux on it. But at that point I may as well screw an RPi to the back of my monitor.
- angersock 13y agoYou do appreciate that, by posting videos to YouTube, you are sharecropping someone else's walled garden?
- VikingCoder 13y agoWe're debating the capabilities of a Chromebook. Using purely web APIs, I can upload a video to YouTube. Any other web page could use the same APIs, and then you're not in a walled garden.
- pearjuice 13y ago>M$ Are you twelve?
- angersock 13y ago(that was a joke for the clever reader) (you'll note the dissonance between the nickname and the actual position of the company which is being admired) (the company having gotten such ire [and that silly nickname] is actually quite open in all the relevant ways here, which is funny)
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