What a wonderful world we would be in if vendors compete on how best they can implement a spec. Assuming "best" means "as close to spec as possible" and that t

What a wonderful world we would be in if vendors compete on how best they can implement a spec. Assuming "best" means "as close to spec as possible" and that the spec is fairly well defined. I use Facebook across multiple different platforms: web, Android, iOS, and Windows. Instead of them putting so much effort into maintaining different codebases I think it would be better if they could maintain one and use their freed up time and resources to deliver new features. They actually are able to do this to some extent on Android. They have notification hooks in there and I can do almost anything I could on the native app. I'm pretty close to uninstalling the native app in favor of this. Competing on spec would allow for different and possibly new phone OSes to be viable. Windows Phone would have a shot and we can bring back webOS from the dead (my favorite device OS of all time).