If you've notice the same time that newspapers announced paywalls mobile phones have gotten really popular so these companies *Actually the US News is only owned by 2 monolithic companies which used to be 6* are catering to the mobile crowd so making news behind paywalls is easier to control the crowd.
PC users are thus getting the shaft who have the freedom to go to different platforms.
Mobile phones you can only use THEIR service! A PC you can have Linux or Windows dual boot! You can't dual boot on a phone!
They will then show the crowd what THEY want them to see as mobile phones have little to no internal memory storage so everything is *cloud based* much like data terminals of the 1970s but in the 1970s terminals and home computers just didn't have the capability of internal storage.
Now we DO have the capability but are not applying it.
Big Industry is trying to push for a closed mobile platform where information is tightly controlled which controls the masses.
We need something similar to the Commodore 64 which despite being ignored by most media had a lot of freedom potential.
Jack Tramiel's quote was "Powers of computing at the hands of the people".
A new person who took over ran the Commodore company to the ground by releasing the *Plus 4* offering no devices for it or software and refused to accept it when store owners demanded a refund who couldn't sell them.
However despite Commodore going out of business it's users of the C64 lived on thru the early 00s.
In Russia it still remained the most popular home computer in the late 90s and their government used them.
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Smartphones creating closed gardens leading to paywalls
If you've notice the same time that newspapers announced paywalls mobile phones have gotten really popular so these companies *Actually the US News is only owned by 2 monolithic companies which used to be 6*
are catering to the mobile crowd so making news behind paywalls is easier to control the crowd.
PC users are thus getting the shaft who have the freedom to go to different platforms.
Mobile phones you can only use THEIR service! A PC you can have Linux or Windows dual boot! You can't dual boot on a phone!
They will then show the crowd what THEY want them to see as mobile phones have little to no internal memory storage so everything is *cloud based* much like data terminals of the 1970s but in the 1970s terminals and home computers just didn't have the capability of internal storage.
Now we DO have the capability but are not applying it.
Big Industry is trying to push for a closed mobile platform where information is tightly controlled which controls the masses.
We need something similar to the Commodore 64 which despite being ignored by most media had a lot of freedom potential.
Jack Tramiel's quote was "Powers of computing at the hands of the people".
A new person who took over ran the Commodore company to the ground by releasing the *Plus 4* offering no devices for it or software and refused to accept it when store owners demanded a refund who couldn't sell them.
However despite Commodore going out of business it's users of the C64 lived on thru the early 00s.
In Russia it still remained the most popular home computer in the late 90s and their government used them.