The Battle for Control

• Both Apple and Google control what can be in their app stores. Neither allows porn or malware. Critics make censorship arguments and worry about how it stifles innovation. Apple also prohibited third party programming languages such as Adobe’s Flash. The same is true for the iPad. Chen says that if he had an iPad as a kid he would never have become a programmer. There is now a battle to control high-speed access on the mobile web that isn’t allowed on the non mobile Internet. This will play out over the next few years. Chen wonders if our always-connected gadgets make us smarter, more functional, and happier or just the opposite. Such answers are not simple.

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