Google and Twitter have been offering data exports for ages though, but importing that data into different products often required either purchasing shitty prop

Google and Twitter have been offering data exports for ages though, but importing that data into different products often required either purchasing shitty propriety software or using scripts that were hacked together and abandoned on someone's GitHub. Don't know if there's something similar for Microsoft and Apple though, but in the end this is just a standardized API on top of already existing APIs and no one involved had to reinvent the wheel here. I'd be surprised if this wasn't a widely requested feature that all involved companies have been ignoring in their backlogs for too long and now they've accelerated this, got management approval and finally managed to get a couple of senior engineers together because of impending legislation that might force their hand.