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I wrote a similar comment but so far have only received downvotes without any feedback as to why people seem to disagree with me. Admittedly, maybe my position
by TheAceOfHearts 3y ago
I wrote a similar comment but so far have only received downvotes without any feedback as to why people seem to disagree with me. Admittedly, maybe my position is a bit more extreme, in that I think it would be pretty reasonable to consider applying political pressure or even legislating to improve file sharing and interoperabiliy between devices. I'd prefer it if big tech companies would just come together and implement support for full cross platform file transfers, but I don't see that happening.
My biggest frustration is that there doesn't seem to be anyone with a large platform willing to ask people in leadership at the big tech companies about such features.
In my ideal world: big tech would come together to write some spec, then devices and operating systems would slowly implement and roll it out. And on older devices you could just build a third-party app that implements the same functionality. The goal would be that ultimately you'd have seamless basic interoperability between devices without having to install third-party apps.
- shiroiushi 3y ago>I'd prefer it if big tech companies would just come together and implement support for full cross platform file transfers How would this help them coerce people to stay within one vendor's ecosystem? It wouldn't. >The goal would be that ultimately you'd have seamless basic interoperability between devices without having to install third-party apps. Interoperability is the last thing that some big tech companies want.