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by clockwerx
3701 days ago
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Could we create open standards? Yes. Will businesses? Probably not.
A lot of 'apps' for food act as an aggregator, which is the closest I can come to an API. But they are locked into one provider - hell, even getting opening hours, menu and how to pay standardised is hard. These all have standards available. No one uses them enough. Why not? Technical difficulty - my local pizza shop doesnt care about running a payment processing endpoint, structured data, etc. Its counter to their goals. What we need is an open source point of sale system that is web first - oscommerce with a desktop UI kind of thing. Then it becomes easy to add in 'publish standard compliant data' |
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Sadly no. The current version of mobile and the web relies on claiming consumer spaces and trying to herd users into them so they can be farmed.
It's a top-down control model.
Thinking in terms of bottom-up user value without imposing top-down control is alien to corporate psychology - even though if businesses agreed open low-friction global standards for payment processing and other kinds of interaction, possibly with some kind of profit sharing, they'd likely do better in the medium to long term.