Comment You really don't comprehend the profit motive? (Score 1) 354
I find your comments about the previous poster being daft kind of funny. You're post posits that there is no profit motive for Apple to "lock down the internet"?
Your description paints a picture where it's about the internet... it isn't. It's about access to information, data, and media. Apple's "profit motive" is to slowly pull the different pieces of your day to day experience into a DRM, protected, entitled world that requires you purchase one of their devices to access said information.
This is ALREADY happening, as people who've bought iPods and iPhones and purchased content are forced to buy MORE Apple devices as they upgrade and evolve. Essentially it's the same thing we saw for years with MS, but on a much larger scale sine it's now beginning to consume every type of media you use (music, movies, etc.).
Sure, you can argue that "some stuff" can be moved to another platform, but if the level of technical knowledge required to do it is prohibitive no one will. In the end you arrive at a place where there is no "free" access to the internet as you know it... everything is locked down inside "subscriptions" and entitled accounts, all empowered and enabled by Apple who makes money:
1) Selling hardware to do it
2) Taking 30% off the top
The scariest part is that it's just like an addiction/drug model... before you know it you can't stop taking it without extreme pain/withdrawal, and the downsides appear to outweigh the upsides. Momentum is a bitch.
Not seeing this and not seeing the frightening power of a walled garden is "daft" to say the least. It's the reason EVERY major media company is pursuing a path that involves some form of walled garden.
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