Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.

Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.

When something online is free, you're not the customer, you're the product.

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

When I worry about privacy I worry about peer-to-peer invasion of privacy. About the fact that anytime anything of any note happens, there are three arms holding cell phones with cameras in them or video records capturing the event ready to go on the nightly news, if necessary. And I think that does change a lot our sense of what is going on in our neighborhoods.

If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable.