'Walled garden.'Whether it's a bad thing depend on your perspective. At least with a wall you don't have to worry about local drunk taking a dump in your flower bed on his way home from the pub.
To be honest, I've never really understood it – you can run whatever apps and use whatever devices you want, there's no actual restriction.
Kim, you are very bad!
Those are all used, but it’s not quite the one we are looking for... but very close to ecosystem.
How about technosphere
Quote from: Auntie Helen on 20 May, 2019, 07:30:03 pmThose are all used, but it’s not quite the one we are looking for... but very close to ecosystem.I feel like I've dropped into a parallel universe. I'm at a loss as to why ecological terms would be transferred wholesale to apply to IT systems. To me, ecosystem is how biological and non-biological components of an environment interact with each other, with nutrient and energy cycling.
Paradigm?
Not the word you're thinking of, I'm sure, but, used in the distinctly pejorative sense and not wholly appropriately, 'hegemony' is a good one. (Annoyingly, Appleophiles would probably like that though )
Paradigm? Take two before breakfast to ensure luscious hair, financial contentment and a cold wet nose.
Hegemony?
Isn't hege money what ESL earns from time to time?
Infrastructure ?
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.