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> ever use a power drill? 7 different battery types non compatible with each other. OK, but do you think you would be well-served if this problem were solved
by jrochkind1 4y ago
> ever use a power drill? 7 different battery types non compatible with each other.
OK, but do you think you would be well-served if this problem were solved by there being only ONE manufacturer of power drills, take what they give you at the price they charge or nothing?
It would be one way of solving the problem of lack of standardization of power drill batteries.
It is the analogy of what you are speaking in favor of by analogy.
The better solution might be multiple drill manufacturers agreeing on a battery standard to all use together, so their batteries can be interchangeable, but you still have your choice of different competing drill and battery manufacturers. What would be the analogy with browsers, do you think?
- eropple 4y ago> What would be the analogy with browsers, do you think? It wouldn't be "use a single browser engine codebase owned by a single company", and that does seem to be the point advocated for here.
- bb88 4y ago> OK, but do you think you would be well-served if this problem were solved by there being only ONE manufacturer of power drills, take what they give you at the price they charge or nothing? Imagine having 20 different gas guzzling cars with 20 different proprietary fuel inlets. If you buy an Audi say, you'd have to go to the Audi refilling station. > What would be the analogy with browsers, do you think? There's no need for analogy -- we've experienced this in the past, e.g., MS ActiveX and other Internet Explorer bugs (or features). There's also the proprietary web, e.g. SilverLight and Flash, before HTML5 Canvas came along. And then HTML5 was a branding effort. Browsers needed to support it to be marketable to the general public. Things just started working again without needing to install plugins or to keep plugins up to date (Flash) -- it was a better web. The W3C could do this if the web gets too fragmented again.
- godelski 4y agoWhat a strange argument. The diversity in cars helped set the universality in the gas port. The same thing is happening with electric vehicles. Yeah, there are some proprietary ones like Tesla, but as more manufacturers have gotten into the space there have become standards as companies realize that a standard charging port helps them beat Tesla (being a united force). Network effects are real.
- bb88 4y agoWhat a strange rebuttal -- maybe just argue what you disagree with and leave the judgement out?