Points Tim has got wrong:
- Google and Amazon does not have the platform value as Apple or Facebook has!
- This era is not different from PC era at all. He just does not want or have courage to say it: Google is the new Microsoft. It's doing the exact opposite (of MS) and still locks customers in. If you want free GPS then you MUST buy Android phone from THE carrier(s). Amazon is not on the Google level but if you want to buy (e-)book who would be your choice? Amazon, of course. Does this count as lock-in? Yes it does.
- Microsoft and champion of open web? How will that be so?
It may be so if they realize that the locking, this time, is not in their favour. Then, the only way to avoid death may be advocating an open internet, where lock-in is less likely.
