Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer?

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.'"

Comments

Ego-centric much?

[gottspeed]

So this egg-head whose allowed apple to set up shop in his temporal lobe thinks he speaks for the millions of people world-wide that use computers for things other than maps, songs, and making fart or chainsaw noises? This is cheesecake for self absorbed children.