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App stores a clear and present danger

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2011/01/13/wikipedias-jimmy-wales-app-stores-a-clear-and-present-danger/

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The app store model is a more immediate threat to internet freedom than breaches of net neutrality. That’s the opinion of Wikipedia chief Jimmy Wales.

According to Wales — who was quick to stress he was speaking in a purely personal capacity — set-ups such as the iTunes App Store can act as a “chokepoint that is very dangerous.” He said such it was time to ask if the model was “a threat to a diverse and open ecosystem” and made the argument that “we own [a] device, and we should control it.”

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