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Thats a pretty basic game theory problem. I don't know why people in tech continue to expect companies who view ownership of the platform to suddenly standardi
by tsunamifury 11y ago
Thats a pretty basic game theory problem. I don't know why people in tech continue to expect companies who view ownership of the platform to suddenly standardize and open it up for everyone to use.
Open ecosystems like Android continue to be profitless while closed ones like iOS rake in billions.
- shmerl 11y agoBecause their petty greed translates into endless years of incompatible mess. We are lucky e-mail works today. If such stupidity as what's happening with IM persisted with e-mail too, we'd be still mostly using snail mail. Thinking of it, we are lucky Internet itself wasn't designed by one of those backwards thinking "platform owners". Communication protocols should not be an "owned platform", they should be communication tools.