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The reality is that every company wants to have things presented in the same way they're prepared, for the purposes of marketing. That's why web browsers with c
by judge2020 5y ago
The reality is that every company wants to have things presented in the same way they're prepared, for the purposes of marketing. That's why web browsers with css are a thing at all - to allow a website to look exactly like what the developer/company behind it wants it to look like.
Why would any company provide data in a standard API so that users can use that data in a standard way? If there was an API for banking, Bank of America wouldn't be able to showcase a professional-esque design and Sofi wouldn't be able to showcase a cartoonish modern design to strengthen their image and attract customers. How do they then attract customers? Only by features and lower margins, which is the opposite of what would make them money.
- TuringTest 5y agoRemember that the original vision for the web was not made for companies, but for academic or government institutions. The idea was to have computers support users, not customers. These words have become synonyms but they have quite different implications. The stated goal was to augment the human intellect, for which you need a well organized corpus of knowledge (think Wikipedia, whose spectacular growth and supporting community came from not being a commercial initiative). But nowadays the whole industry is focused around building products and services that can be packaged and sold, to the point that its professionals can't even think of any other possibilities when discussing the characteristics of the ecosystem. Incentives are completely different; it's no wonder that interests of industry are misaligned with actual needs of the final users.