Protocols over platforms hasn’t happened because who is going to pay for the apps and polishing their user experience? Software is really weird. For a car the

Protocols over platforms hasn’t happened because who is going to pay for the apps and polishing their user experience? Software is really weird. For a car the engine and drive train and frame cost a lot more than the dashboard and the trim. For software this is backwards. The engine and drive train are often cheap or even free, but controls that people can use or trim to make it look nice is very difficult and expensive. It’s easy to make (most) software work but soul crushingly hard to make it usable.