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Beside of open-source, this whole use-case should be built as an industry standard, not as a ammunition for an adjacent platform war.

With these few huge tech-companies, the industry has lost its natural "feature" that required competing players to work together and form an Alliance/SIG to make really big things happen.

Instead, the really big companies are happy to take the fruits from that time (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC,...) and build something proprietary on top instead of contributing back to it...



Open standards are still a very common thing. Google and Apple themselves cooperated in development of Matter... then failed to address the key-sharing issue that facilitates vendor lock-in on Matter... so yeah, uhh... never mind.


Yeah, a bad example on many levels.

It also took them almost a DECADE to acknowledge that they should work together on this topic, and STILL they don't fully acknowledge that.

I wonder how long it will take for them to complete the journey on NOT cooperating on messaging, by butchering the RCS-specification in secrecy...




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