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Originally Posted by TadW
If I don't like the limited view of the Net, I can and should go to someone else.
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Unfortunately, more and more of the top wireless carriers in the US are
creating walls around content and
crippling the the built-in and advertised capabilities of devices approved for their networks.
There's a
great article about walled gardens at VentureBlog:
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As I fly back home from DemoMobile, I am struck by the fact that "innovation" in the mobile market is apparently stuck in the same quagmire we faced at the outset of the Web. All mobile computing paths appear to be leading to the walled garden. And no matter how pretty that walled garden may appear at first blush, mark my words, it is going to feel pretty claustrophobic in no time at all.
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Since when did wireless carriers become content providers? They're struggling to find a business model that offsets the commoditization of airtime, but it's at the expense of the user's freedom to choose how, when and where they get their content.