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It's disappointing that we are in the situation where we have several competing protocols for streaming audio - Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA
by ultrafez 12y ago
It's disappointing that we are in the situation where we have several competing protocols for streaming audio - Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA.
As a society we are capable of making software and hardware that interoperate among manufacturers - email and HTTP are good examples. We could be a far more technologically advanced world if capitalism didn't encourage companies to create competing closed-source protocols that only benefit the companies themselves, to the detriment of everyone else.
- carsonreinke 12y agoThis is how I feel every time there is an announcement like this.
- acgourley 12y agoTo be fair, the existing UPnP/DLNA standard really wasn't good enough. For example, AirPlay just added wifi direct connections between devices which is a requirement for good streaming video. On balance I believe it's a net positive to have some competing standards for a while as we figure out what works best. I do hope we can arrive at some interoperable standards, or we can at least mitigate the spread via low cost adapter devices.
- nightski 12y agoYes but if everyone agreed on a standard I could see us all complaining that "we could be far more technologically advanced world if we didn't force everyone to use the same standard and there was more room for innovation and competition".
- nobodyshere 12y agoSpotify still works through AirPlay though.