How to Take Back the Internet
WiredGideon: Even the phrase “walled garden” makes it sound like, you know, kind of nice, pleasant to calm place. I think there will always be this subset of consumers, even tech-savvy ones, who look at something like Apple's lock in and say, oh, sure, yeah, but it works. On the internet, we used to have more freedom of choice, and so I think like not using the word, maybe, “interoperability” so much but framing it as you pointed out, like that this is a lack of choice, and you are giving up your data and your personal information in exchange, you're getting a lack of choice seems like maybe a better way to, like, to think about this. Gideon: But I also don't think it's a subset of consumers who like the convenience of getting iMessages across their devices and all of these other conveniences. Either you have the convenience, and your iMessages work across all your devices, and the apps in the App Store are safe, and they don't contain viruses, you know, all, all of that good stuff happens, or you're out there in the wild, wild frontier where nothing works and nothing is safe, and I think that is a false trade-off.
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