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The logic here is "Apple gained significant market share with its features so we'll legislate them into a universal standard". Same logic could be applied to an
by ironhalik 2y ago
The logic here is "Apple gained significant market share with its features so we'll legislate them into a universal standard".
Same logic could be applied to any other feature made by any other company.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it as a consumer. I'd friggin love to be able to airdrop a file from one digital device to another.
But it could be an ingenious way to create standards. Instead of randomly creating fourteen different solutions to a problem hoping one will gain traction, we wait for apple/microsoft/cisco/whoever to force one down our throats and then take it from them and make it a standard.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- Jensson 2y ago> Same logic could be applied to any other feature made by any other company. How many companies are bigger than Apple? Not that many, so no it can't be applied to any other company.