<story><title>Demoted</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisLTD</author><text>Exactly. A lot of Apple&apos;s big announcements today were about features that create lock-in. Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions; your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents are tied to iCloud; they even want your text messaging tied to your iOS devices. Then there&apos;s all those apps you bought on the Mac and iOS App Stores that you&apos;ll never be able to transfer to another system.&lt;p&gt;If you start using enough of these new features, switching away to Android, WebOS or Windows will be a nightmare.</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Gruber is repeating the obvious, but in a convoluted way.&lt;p&gt;Apple is about selling HW.  Google is about selling ads.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s it.  Everything else falls from that.&lt;p&gt;Google&apos;s goal is to commodotize HW, and I this is, at least theoretically, doable.  Apple can&apos;t really commodotize ads, at least in no way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rimantas</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;#62; Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions
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But it is not.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;#62; they even want your text messaging tied to your iOS
  &amp;#62; devices
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Another way to look at it: your text messaging is freed from your carrier.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;#62; Then there&apos;s all those apps you bought on the Mac and iOS App
  &amp;#62; Stores that you&apos;ll never be able to transfer to another system.
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How is that different from any other system?</text></comment>
<story><title>Demoted</title><url>http://daringfireball.net/2011/06/demoted</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisLTD</author><text>Exactly. A lot of Apple&apos;s big announcements today were about features that create lock-in. Your music is tied to a $25 iTunes subscriptions; your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents are tied to iCloud; they even want your text messaging tied to your iOS devices. Then there&apos;s all those apps you bought on the Mac and iOS App Stores that you&apos;ll never be able to transfer to another system.&lt;p&gt;If you start using enough of these new features, switching away to Android, WebOS or Windows will be a nightmare.</text></item><item><author>kenjackson</author><text>Gruber is repeating the obvious, but in a convoluted way.&lt;p&gt;Apple is about selling HW.  Google is about selling ads.&lt;p&gt;That&apos;s it.  Everything else falls from that.&lt;p&gt;Google&apos;s goal is to commodotize HW, and I this is, at least theoretically, doable.  Apple can&apos;t really commodotize ads, at least in no way I can think of.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedunangst</author><text>Are your reading list, email, calendar, to do list, and office documents not tied to the google cloud?  If you use enough of them, isn&apos;t switching to yahoo/msn/apple going to be a nightmare?  There doesn&apos;t appear to be much difference to me.&lt;p&gt;Also, minor point, your music is not tied to a subscription.  The syncing is.  Cancel the subscription, keep the files.</text></comment>