This looks like a positive step in a healthy direction. Attacking the garden walls, upgrade ratchets and incompatible proprietary formats and protocols would al

This looks like a positive step in a healthy direction. Attacking the garden walls, upgrade ratchets and incompatible proprietary formats and protocols would also be positive steps with related benefits. Locking customers into one platform and then changing the software and protocols that form the foundations of that platform in ways that break backward compatibility results in a lot of unnecessary wastage in all of physical equipment, user data and the financial costs paid by users.