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>Why would I want one app and company to own all of that? Because one entity can control they way it's all integrated, they can bring UI consistency and conven
by aethertron 10y ago
>Why would I want one app and company to own all of that?
Because one entity can control they way it's all integrated, they can bring UI consistency and convenience by enforcing some degree of feature de-duplication. E.g. Single sign-on, and a shared e-wallet.
>Having APIs for apps on a device to talk to each other allows for competition and variety - won't it obviously win out?
Nope, there's no guarantee. There are benefits to both approaches. Different people have different priorities, normies don't care this much about freedom.
If this is the future you want, you need to fight for it.
- acchow 10y agoI don't actually care which future will be realized, I just want the better experience. I just don't see how a one-company-does-all can possibly win out over a free market of competition between companies and developers on an open platform. On the other hand, if WeChat eventually opens up its "app" to other developers and companies, then it will effectively become the operating system and platform. At which point (1) this is "isomorphic" our current system and offers exactly zero advantages (we are just changing where we place the label "operating system") (2) it will be competing with iOS and Android, not with other apps (3) they will have to release a phone that runs the WeChat OS