{"id":18200,"date":"2010-04-09T23:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T21:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=18200"},"modified":"2010-04-09T23:31:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T21:31:12","slug":"ipad-la-piattaforma-anti-web-e-il-conflitto-di-interessi-dei-giornalisti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2010\/04\/09\/ipad-la-piattaforma-anti-web-e-il-conflitto-di-interessi-dei-giornalisti\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipad, la piattaforma anti web e il conflitto di interessi dei giornalisti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Gilmor non le manda a dire a Apple e ai giornalisti<\/a><\/p>\n

The iPad, as many others have noted, is designed to work best with apps: Apple\u2019s own and the third-party apps that are coming into the Apple-controlled market from which Apple profits with every sale of a paid app and will profit further from commercial activities that take place inside those apps. It\u2019s much more in Apple\u2019s interest to push the iPad as an app platform than as a Web platform, however well the device runs Flash-forbidden Safari (competing browser providers are not welcome in any case).<\/p>\n

Apple wants to be not just the platform but also, effectively, the pipe<\/em> \u2014 a permission-required conduit \u2014 for the information that gets to the device. This makes the iPad a fundamentally anti-Web platform no matter what Apple and its supporters claim. It makes the iPad an anti-Internet<\/a><\/em> platform, as GigaOm\u2019s Paul Sweeting told NPR the other day. Apple\u2019s lockdown methods suit a large number of media consumers just fine. They want<\/em> a walled garden. They want<\/em> Apple to protect them. They want<\/em> an ecosystem where someone else makes all the key decisions so they don\u2019t have to worry.<\/p>\n

The more thoughtful among this group figure they can go elsewhere if Apple abuses its power (not caring, apparently, that Apple already has amply demonstrated abusive ways). They are falling into the trap Jonathan Zittrain warned about so presciently in his book, The Future of the Internet \u2014 and How to Stop it<\/a><\/em> \u2014 a future where our ability to be creative will exist more and more at the whim of companies and governments that prefer centralized control and want us to ask permission. Truly dynamic societies don\u2019t work that way.<\/p>\n

Traditional journalism executives (and not a few of their editors, writers et al in newsrooms) have found the walled garden\u2019s fragrances too alluring to resist. They are making an understandable short-term decision, but in seeking what Cory Doctorow so aptly calls a \u201cdaddy figure\u201d<\/a> they\u2019re casting their lot with a company that hasn\u2019t begun to earn such fealty. (I use that last word deliberately; it comes from feudal times and refers to the enforced loyalty tenants and vassals were forced to swear to lords.)<\/p>\n

Journalism principles will survive the iPad. Journalism will survive panicked efforts to restore a former \u201cglory\u201d that was based more on rapacious, unsustainable business models than on actual value to society. It will survive because the entrepreneurial spirit \u2014 if permitted by those in authority to flourish \u2014 always finds ways around control. In the long run, it\u2019ll all work out. But in the short run, I\u2019d be happier if journalists recognized and discussed more publicly the conflicts they face in supporting this controlling device \u2014 and doing business with the company that controls it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Gilmor non le manda a dire a Apple e ai giornalisti The iPad, as many others have noted, is designed to work best with apps: Apple\u2019s own and the third-party apps that are coming into the Apple-controlled market from which Apple profits with every sale of a paid app and will profit further from … Leggi tutto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,15],"tags":[56,161,1236],"class_list":["post-18200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economia","category-media","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-giornalisti","tag-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18202,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions\/18202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}