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It's sad how Google, Apple et al. have mostly abandoned the use of open standards in favor of locking users to their own closed, craptastic, proprietary service
by fuck_google 11y ago
It's sad how Google, Apple et al. have mostly abandoned the use of open standards in favor of locking users to their own closed, craptastic, proprietary services. Lack of interoperability severely limits the usability of cloud based services. Sadly these vendors seem unable to produce decent tools that work well together, so users are left with their data scattered across crappy services (e.g. Google Apps/Drive/Docs/Calendar etc.).
Lack of interoperability, vendor lock-in, poor usability of many web based apps and crappy touch based UIs makes me feel like we are living in the dark ages of the information society. It's almost as if people have forgotten how powerful tools we had 20 years ago compared to the current web app bloatware and how efficient keyboard + mouse is compared to most touch based UIs.
- stephenr 11y agoI have no love for Google, but I'm not sure how you somehow group "touch based UIs" into "proprietary services". There are plenty of great apps on mobile devices that support open standards. The whole point of an open standard is that you have the freedom to choose how you consume the data - be it a terminal/shell client, a desktop GUI client, a mobile 'touch' client, a web client, whatever.
- fuck_google 11y agoI tried to avoid lumping them together by putting them in different paragraphs, but perhaps that's too old school these days. :) I totally agree with the rest of your comment. The trouble is that huge companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft pretty much control the mainstream apps and seem to lack focus on productivity. They just follow whatever fad that offers fast growth (usually targeting teens, hipsters and executives) and try to lock users into their own ecosystem. There is hardly any room left for contenders as the public expects everything to be free or cost $1.