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That time period was magical for interoperability of services, P2P and open protocols. The tech landscape today would look much different if the principles of t
by heavyset_go 5y ago
That time period was magical for interoperability of services, P2P and open protocols. The tech landscape today would look much different if the principles of that era were adhered to today.
Instead, the "interoperability" we get today is the result of multibillion dollar corporations making partnerships with each other, while independent developers are locked out.
As an example, Google gets access to streaming services APIs and catalogs in order to fill their Chromecast and AndroidTV products' menus with movies and shows. Meanwhile, Kodi has to rely on hacks to do something similar, it doesn't work with all streaming services, and there might not be feature parity.
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoDoes the European DMA law indicate a possible return of this? It sounds like Europe is about to require interoperability between Facebook Messenger-likes and other clients.
- mike_d 5y agoLikely not. You'll just see everyone fall back to supporting SMS like iMessages does. There is no way to regulate an equivalent level of service and features be provided on a platform you don't control.
- pabs3 5y agoI wonder if this will result in RCS becoming the standard, or maybe Matrix or XMPP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoI wonder if these companies are still using XMPP: Google and Facebook for a while even would allow XMPP servers to federate