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>> "Perhaps right now walled-garden devices are still profitable, but if they continue to become more limited" Aren't they becoming less limited? Every year Ap
by k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "Perhaps right now walled-garden devices are still profitable, but if they continue to become more limited"
Aren't they becoming less limited? Every year Apple allows developers to do things they couldn't the year before (e.g. keyboards, widgets).
- JetSpiegel 12y agoLifting artificial limitations doesn't count.
- comex 12y agoIt does in the context of users voting with their feet - most users care about what their phone can and can't do, not about what's artificial. (Indeed, they may associate more open systems with malware.)
- seanp2k2 12y agoVoting with your feet works less when you only really* have the choice between Android or iOS, Democrat or Republican, Comcast or AT&T, etc. *if you want your phone to be compatible with the vast majority of external devices, services, stuff your friends have, etc, or if you want your political critter to stand a chance of winning, or if you want to not have dial-up, pay a few hundred dollars a month +, have a really slow connection, or go without Internet.
- chc 12y agoIf lifting artificial limitations doesn't count as "becoming less limited", then does creating artificial limitations count as "becoming more limited"? Because they seem like obvious cognates.