> "The internet is not a budget strip-mall of different low grade outlets; it's more an orchard full of fruit you can discover and pick at will from millions of trees."
Maybe it's just me, but I'm having a difficult time trying to comprehend how this statement relates to your argument. Some perspective please?
It's a commentary on how providing isolated islands (app stores) damages the distributed nature of the world wide web. Effectively every app technology is a landgrab by some entity who wants some exclusive chunk of the web with their own rules, usually for commercial gain.
Basically the principle turns the world wide web into another WalMart or McDonald's rather than a vast library.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm having a difficult time trying to comprehend how this statement relates to your argument. Some perspective please?