walled garden
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any closed platform. A closed platform is any computing system where the manufacturer retains monopolistic control over installation, distribution, and use of software and services.
noun
A closed platform for content or services controlled by a single carrier or service provider, typically requiring subscription to access.
Example Sentences
- "The walled garden full of shadows blazed with colour as if the flowers were giving up the light absorbed during the day."
- "You cannot walk the other side because the walled garden meets the road direct in pools of spangled tarmac after rain; the open gutter choking up with leaves."
- "A ‘walled garden’, in this case, refers to a closed platform, where the provider maintains restrictive control over what is hosted on the platform, and in many cases how that content is accessed, paid for, and even supported by different services and technologies. In many cases, walled gardens also lock players to the platform, blocking or limiting the likes of cross-play, cross-progression, and other cross-platform approaches."
- "A long time ago, back before Al Gore invented the Internet, there were three big kids on the online block, each of which ran its own proprietary online service. America Online, Prodigy and CompuServe each had a "walled garden" of sorts for their customers."
- "AOL tried to provide a walled garden for all their subscribers in the early 1990s."
- "When you deal with iPhones and iPads (and the iCloud, iMacs, iTVs, iPods, and all those other iThingies), you're living in a walled garden. Apple controls it from the beginning to end."