TROUBLE WITH SERGEY BRIN’S COMMENTS ABOUT APPS *Please enlighten me.* I have a h

TROUBLE WITH SERGEY BRIN’S COMMENTS ABOUT APPS

*Please enlighten me.*

I have a hard time taking Brin’s criticism of FB and Apple seriously. Google is an app. FB is an app. Apple is an app/hardware structure. Google makes its money from freely available information. FB and Apple, as well as some international sites, consist of closed content. Since advertising works on google and doesn’t work on FB and elsewhere, then I don’t understand what he’s complaining about. Google owns the commercial and intellectual sphere. Apple is trying to make sure porn and viruses don’t make it onto their platform, and FB is trying to make something, anything, that will make money over the long term by understanding consumers and their preferences in a way that Google seems unable to.

Why this is bad just doesn’t make sense to me.

Now, if you talk about the government’s threatening to hide information and communications from their people, then yes, I understand that. I understand that China should probably be isolated from the entire internet infrastructure so that we can as easily shut them out if we want to — and may need to since our military relies upon the internet now.

But I don’t understand the concern with information that’s inaccesible in ‘apps’.