Saturday, April 6, 2013

postheadericon Iron curtains are coming down all around mobile and app ecosystems

Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple - all pushing their users within their own ecosystem and makes it harder to stay out. Why? For money

digital life is more Orwellian future: the great designers of ecosystems are slowly but surely push users to their ecosystems. It is as if the Iron Curtain descended across Europe after the Second World War.

It's very subtle, very slow, but it seems that there are long-term ambition of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and so on is to keep their users themselves themselves and block all others.

Under the guise of a clean, Google was killing support protocols and applications that allow users to other ecosystems access to Google services.

Twitter is, after the close of the third direction API that those wishing to access Twitter, you must visit the website or use of your specific application, the new third-party applications are strictly limited

Google Reader, Exchange ActiveSync, and Google Voice app for Blackberry are gone and now Google has pulled the plug on its service blocking websites for search engines.

Some of them just are not used enough to make it profitable to continue to support, but others simply make it more difficult for those living in other ecosystems to access Google services .

If a user is in a device or application developed by an ecosystem of the ecosystem then reap the benefits of such use.

Follow the Money

For ActiveSync, I hope they are replaced, either with Gmail and Calendar applications for Windows Phone, or a synchronization method so that Google has more control.
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