The Walled Garden Has Won
Ten years ago people were horrified at the notion of Intel adding a unique ID to all of its processors. Today every phone has a unique ID, and yours is probably uploaded to apps’ servers multiple times a day. Not so long ago, people were outraged that Amazon could and did arbitrarily delete books from users’ Kindles; last week they clamored for Google to exercise essentially the same power.
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On attempts to seize control over users, that were previously unthinkable. Also, why Android platform is much more away from openness than some of us would like to think.
