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		flukus on Oct 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web? Some developers love them, but as a developer myself the idea that I need apples permissions to run my own apps on my own machine makes my skin crawl. If early computing was a walled garden environment like iOS I never would have been a developer.

pjmlp on Oct 5, 2018 [–]

Early computing was a kind of walled garden.

Each computer system was its own eco-system with special hardware features.

The PC was the exception to it, only because IBM wasn't too clever about securing the platform like everyone else.

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