09 Jun 2010
Closing the Digital Frontier

Sad, and altogether too true. Let's hope this is a temporary trend. AOL tried this "walled garden" approach in the mid to late 90's, and we know how that turned out. We'll see.

The era of the Web browser’s dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet’s founding ideology—that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral— suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans. What will this mean for the future of the media—and of the Web itself?

(link) [The Atlantic]

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