Archives for the "rent" tag
A Dark Cloud
If an external party can control when or how you can use a device or decide on what you can or cannot see, or select what programs you can install on it, are you still owning it?
Tags: Content, Copyright, Intellectual property, censorship, killswitch, ownership, rent
In Analysis, Business, Media, Politics, Technology
The Cloud Wars
The cloud wars will pick two camps against each others: on one side, advocates of applications running on the desktop; on the other advocates of applications running in a browser.
Tags: Access, Connectivity, Google, History, Internet, Microsoft, OS, ownership, rent
In Analysis, Technology
Is Ownership Passé?
In this first piece in a series, I look at ownership vs. renting, the result of a number of observations throughout the last few months.
Tags: Access, Apple, Connectivity, Content, Data, Internet, Media, Trends, amazon, kindle, netflix, ownership, rent
In Analysis, Business, Media, Technology
