7/3/2023 0 Comments The tipping point audio bookSocial media platforms of various types – many which rose as AOL fell – constitute another set of gardens. The deeper you journey into the garden, the more invested you become and the more difficult to leave. People with Apple devices also have Apple apps and software and services, which work together very conveniently and look nice and quietly conspire to pull you further in (Apple Music Classical!). One form is the technology by which we go online – Apple being the prime example. We just notice them less, probably because in most cases we don’t pay upfront for them through an obvious AOL-ish access charge, and because walled gardens now take on such varied shapes. You’ll likely have encountered several of them within minutes of going online. Since then, online walled gardens have proliferated. For a variety of reasons, AOL’s star began to dim in the noughties and I am sure I was not alone in thinking it was because people had had enough of those walls, and a more open internet had triumphed.
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