It seems almost like it's all historical accident from the IBM PC wars. Now all the companies want vendor lock in, and developers don't seem to get excited any

It seems almost like it's all historical accident from the IBM PC wars. Now all the companies want vendor lock in, and developers don't seem to get excited anymore. Back in the day people liked tech and wanted to use it everywhere and have everything just work every time. Now it seems like everyone just wants to tinker with small projects. Like, look at all the stuff Bluetooth 5 can do. If that existed in 1997, I think there would be about 5x the excitement. But there are probably more people working on customizing their window manager than doing anything with the big name standards.