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You don't have to wait for "standards to evolve" to be and open system. You can open your API and see if community wants to adopt it as a standard.
by jay_kyburz 7y ago
You don't have to wait for "standards to evolve" to be and open system. You can open your API and see if community wants to adopt it as a standard.
- saagarjha 7y agoDoing this too much is the second “E” of embrace, extend, extinguish…
- headsoup 7y agoExcept in this case there is no first E for Embrace, so that doesn't work...
- jonny_eh 7y agoJust like Apple promised to do with Facetime. https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-facetime-open-source-its-time/ https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-promised-to-make-faceti...
- chadcmulligan 7y agoThat was stopped by the patent troll I believe https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/29/apple_fifth_facetime_appeal/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/29/apple_fifth_facetim...
- zapeachy 7y agoThe latest in that saga: https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/09/virnetx-reverses-ruling-invalidating-patents-used-against-apple https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/09/virnetx-reverses-...
- lallysingh 7y agoWhat is FaceTime doing that you can't do with WebRTC? And that's already open.
- danaris 7y agoWhether FaceTime is doing things that can't easily be done with WebRTC, I don't know, but when FaceTime came out, WebRTC didn't even exist. Hell, it wasn't stable until just a year ago.