It was to manufacturer's advantage for electricity to be standardized. Otherwise they would have to support components for every single distributor. I don't k

It was to manufacturer's advantage for electricity to be standardized. Otherwise they would have to support components for every single distributor. I don't know if it was to distributor's advantage... I think there's probably some argument for a shared grid and lines improving them also. There's no advantage I can think of for Philips to host non-Philips protocols on their lightbulbs.