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I feel like a lot of people have forgotten that we had proprietary services before the web became a thing. E.g. Compuserve, Prodigy.
by rootusrootus 3y ago
I feel like a lot of people have forgotten that we had proprietary services before the web became a thing. E.g. Compuserve, Prodigy.
- smoldesu 3y agoA lot of people never paid for or used those services even when they were in their hayday.
- kelnos 3y agoI used CompuServe in the 90s (user ID 76760,1543 here; why do I remember useless things like that...), and it was fantastic to be able to ditch it for a generic, competitive, local ISP, where I could get on the internet using open, standardized protocols. Making things proprietary when they should be commodities is a step backward, and we should fight that, tooth and nail.
- LMYahooTFY 3y agoThose services died relatively quickly in the face of what GP is describing.
- rootusrootus 3y agoIndeed they did. Why do we now think it's possible to go back to that?
- int_19h 3y agoOP's point is that it's not, which is why Apple is begrudgingly allowing it. But if they could make you use apps for everything instead of a browser, they would. And they'd use all the same arguments they do today wrt not allowing sideloading etc to justify it.