Going Cloudless, it to remove all of your data from the cloud and keep it stored locally. Why would someone do that? Using cloud services are a great convenience and we don’t have to think about managing my files anymore. While that is true, with convenience comes trade-offs like personal data vulnerability and cost. Let’s […]
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Last week we discussed operating system platforms and left off on Browsers. Here on Platform De.Central we care about Market Choice, Data Privacy & Platform Choice. In Part 2 of our 3 part series ‘The Illusion of platform choice’ we will be reviewing browsers based on those three criteria. Google Chrome Google has changed web […]
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The Illusion of platform choice. Part 1
Today we ask things like, do I want an iPhone or an Android Phone, Mac, Chromebook or PC, iPad or Surface, Homekit, Alexa or Google, Facebook or nothing? Do we actually have a market where there is platform choice or the illusion of platform choice? How did we get here, why is it that there […]