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Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer?

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 4, 2011 @03:33AM from the not-the-one-I'm-using dept.

theodp writes "Harvard Law School Prof Jonathan Zittrain explains in The Personal Computer is Dead why you should be afraid — very afraid — of the snowballing replicability of the App Store Model. 'If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens,' warns Zittrain, 'we'll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we'll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.' Searchblog's John Battelle, who's also solidly in the tear-down-this-walled-garden camp, adds: 'I'm not a nerd, quite, but I'm sure angry.'"

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Angry Nerds by Anonymous Coward · 2011-12-04 03:37 · Score: 5, Funny

No way, Angry Nerds will not be in the App Store!
1. Re:Angry Nerds by amnesia_tc · 2011-12-04 04:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Angry Words from Angry Nerds.
2. Re:Angry Nerds by Glock27 · 2011-12-04 06:59 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Actually, if done properly, "Angry Nerds" could be a huge winner in the App Store! heh
  
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It's more like... by Literaphile · 2011-12-04 03:56 · Score: 4, Funny

Have walled gardens killed everyone's ability to come up with new metaphors for closed systems?
Re:So what? by zippthorne · 2011-12-04 04:20 · Score: 4, Funny

But how do the three shells work?

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Re:Appstores are stupid by tiffany352 · 2011-12-04 04:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Maybe we'll see the Rise of Linux. :D
Re:So what? by Kohath · 2011-12-04 05:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Did the number 3 murder your parents or something? What's wrong with 3? What's your point?