> shocked to see the list of partners involved Google and Microsoft? Think of these companies' retail successes: - Google has basically zero retail services

> shocked to see the list of partners involved Google and Microsoft? Think of these companies' retail successes: - Google has basically zero retail services that are not designed to support its ads business. Chromebook and Pixel devices are arguable exceptions, but as hardware devices irrelevant to this proposal anyway. - MS has Surface, Windows and Xbox. Google's moneymaker - Ads - wouldn't be affected by portability since it has no retail customers. MS's products are equally impervious. Facebook on the other hand would be existentially threatened by this achieving ubiquity. If social media becomes federated, their monopoly rates charged advertisers would fall to competitive levels. There is Microsoft's LinkedIn and it would be very interesting to be a fly on the wall of the discussions between its execs and the MS execs overseeing this data portability project. Either they don't take the project seriously or MS thinks they may gain more imports into LinkedIn than exports. Or at least enough to come out even.