maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - NPR actually covered the closed apple ecosystem this morning

	tso	2010-04-06 , 14:25
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Originally Posted by uncleboarder

"The anti-Internet". I never thought of it that way. But they're right. That's why I sold my iphone, it was too locked down. Giving our Internet choices to a corporation is a very bad trend.

As we move more and more into the information age, information will become less and less available for free.

thats the thing. Most of the apps available thats not some canned goods like a book or media package need a data connection for updates.

funny thing is that html5 is designed to incorporate features worked out by google (gears) and mozilla (prism) that allows a web "app" to store a local copy that can then update itself to the online server when a data connection is available. Both gmail and google reader worked with gears, but is now being converted to html5. these features work in chrome and firefox at least, and will be a cornerstone of chromeos.

heck, there is even full 3d graphics being worked on via webgl. Consider a game that one can download thats basically html5 and webgl.

the problem is, as have always been with computers, that standardized systems takes longer to come into being then proprietary equivalent. And once the proprietary variant have taken hold, it can be very hard to uproot.

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