interoperability is the capability of a product or system to interact and function with others. Why would that force them to all function the same? Why would that be bad for us as consumers? Why does it matter how many choices we have if those choices restrict us to using a specific one? Interoperability solves all of these and causes none of the problems you are stating. Of course they have no incentive for doing this as it doesn’t benefit a corporation, they’re only incentivized to entrap people in their ecosystems cause it makes them the most money. Different messaging standards is one of the ways they keep us locked in. This is a choice, too, one made by the tech giants for you with no choice in the matter. You can’t send a nice quality picture from iMessage to Google Messages, get fukt.
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months agoWhy should they be forced to interop? That’ll just reduce it to the lowest commend demoninator. What impetus would any of them have for investing in making a better system if everyone can use their work?
We have choices. We don’t have to use iMessage, or Beeper. We can use other messengers.
Forcing interop means all messengers will function the same… Again at the LCD level.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
How else do you make them interop, other than by finding a common mapping?
Why would any company map their extended or unique elements, which they developed, to meet government regs?
They won’t, they’ll drop to the least effort required to get the regulators off their backs.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Choice is nice, but my problem is the choices can’t communicate with each other correctly. Thats an issue. Its an issue when our communication devices are not effective at communicating what we want to. We are already seeing the bare ass minimum right now, which is just SMS. They’re doing that now, the bare minimum. If Apple was forced to fix their shitty conversion instead of it just picking the worst resolution possible, they would do it. It doesn’t matter what app I use because most people in the US use iMessage, and thats where I do most of my communicating.
Tertle950@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 months ago