The appliancization of the PC
July 28th, 2008 | by zittrain | published in Book, Future of the Internet, Generativity, iphone | 2 Comments
One of the more contestable claims of the FOI book is that tethered information appliances like the iPhone, that either block outside apps or subject them to much more gatekeeping by the platform vendor, will not only complement the more open PC, but overtake it — that PCs themselves will become appliancized. Already there’s talk […]