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> Given that WhatsApp manages to update its entirety of the internet in a few days, I'd say that is quite a long time. Is there a name for this fallacious "argu
by shakna 7y ago
> Given that WhatsApp manages to update its entirety of the internet in a few days, I'd say that is quite a long time. Is there a name for this fallacious "arguing for/against something without comparing it to alternatives"?
You're comparing the wrong thing there. The alternative to a protocol specification is not a closed source implementation of a proprietary system. How fast Windows Update can change their architecture doesn't really matter a jot when looking at changes to apt, etc.
We can instead look at how long it took to update the IMAP spec to include TLS, or the move towards requiring OAUTH.
- StavrosK 7y agoThe original argument was comparing centralized vs decentralized services. We aren't talking about closed vs open, the point remains even if you substitute WhatsApp with Signal.
- shakna 7y agoI wasn't talking about closed/open either. Outlook and Thunderbird are both clients that use known specifications. One is open, one is closed. Getting both updated to the specification takes more time (and in Outlook's case may never happen), then updating something where no specification exists.