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Just like mp3 players and touchscreen smartphones never took off due to Apple maintaining a walled garden around the iPod and the iPhone? If they come up with

by avar 12y ago

Just like mp3 players and touchscreen smartphones never took off due to Apple maintaining a walled garden around the iPod and the iPhone? If they come up with a compelling product there will be competitors and standardization.

skeletonjelly 12y ago
The MP3 codec already existed, and touchscreens have nothing to do with a "common protocol", unless you count being a human with a capacitance as a protocol.
- sixbrx 12y ago
  MP3 existed but was proprietary.
  - XorNot 12y ago
    Irrelevant: free encoders were popular, and the early days of Napster meant most MP3s are CD-rips being uploaded by users. Apple made out like a bandit from that ecosystem since it was the original reason to own an iPod.