Have Walled Gardens Killed the Personal Computer?

theodp writes "Harvard Law School Prof Jonathan Zittrain explains in The Personal Computer is Dead why you should be afraid — very afraid — of the snowballing replicability of the App Store Model. 'If we allow ourselves to be lulled into satisfaction with walled gardens,' warns Zittrain, 'we'll miss out on innovations to which the gardeners object, and we'll set ourselves up for censorship of code and content that was previously impossible. We need some angry nerds.' Searchblog's John Battelle, who's also solidly in the tear-down-this-walled-garden camp, adds: 'I'm not a nerd, quite, but I'm sure angry.'"

Angry Nerds

[Anonymous Coward]

No way, Angry Nerds will not be in the App Store!

It's more like...

[Literaphile]

Have walled gardens killed everyone's ability to come up with new metaphors for closed systems?

Re:Angry Nerds

[amnesia_tc]

Angry Words from Angry Nerds.

Re:So what?

[zippthorne]

But how do the three shells work?

Re:Appstores are stupid

[tiffany352]

Maybe we'll see the Rise of Linux. :D

Re:So what?

[Kohath]

Did the number 3 murder your parents or something? What's wrong with 3? What's your point?

Re:Angry Nerds

[Glock27]

Actually, if done properly, "Angry Nerds" could be a huge winner in the App Store! heh