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0 pointskuschku3y ago0 comments

> Perhaps we should be angry with the whole of Microsoft+Google+Samsung+Apple+etc all doing their own things, rather than sitting down in one room and agreeing on a strategy that benefits the users of all of their devices?

You mean, standards like USB-C, WiDi transfer, MTP, etc?

Because it's Apple that refuses to use those standards. I can use the same standards, no matter if Windows Phone (RIP), Android, Sailfish.

As long as you're outside of the Apple Silo, everything works fine, no matter the phone, no matter the OS.

It's only Apple that intentionally does its own thing to lock you in.

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rollcat3y ago

You mean like when Apple introduced (and standardized) HLS, so everyone else immediately jumped to create DASH - a literal hell of an over-engineered kitchen sink of NIH? Or when they created/contributed to CUPS, mDNS, Webkit? Or as they continue committing to Lightning 10 years in, while the rest of the world kept flailing between USB micro, USB mini, USB-C, and random proprietary cruft of the month?

I don't disagree that Apple is often the worst offender, but let's not pretend like the rest of the industry isn't pulling all sorts of user- or developer-hostile crap all the time.

kuschkuOP3y ago

"The rest of the industry" - when apple creates actual standards, the rest of the industry follows.

Linux uses CUPS, even Chromecast uses mDNS, and KDE famously invented WebKit (and still uses it).

It's not these standards people complain about, it's the custom, walled-garden, proprietary stuff.

Like Lightning, which could have been a global standard, if it didn't encrypt all transfers with custom chips, a custom handshake and custom protocol, all of which only apple controls.

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