[crote]

> This is much harder to do across companies.

Because those tech companies intentionally make it unnecessarily hard. Rather than creating an (open) standard they dig out an extra moat around their walled garden, and make it essentially impossible to release well-integrated products without paying the Apple/Google/Amazon Tax - if they even allow it at all.

Just compare it with a standard like Wifi or Displayport: it's orders of magnitude more complex than pushing some audio to a headphone, yet it works seamlessly across dozens of vendors. When was the last time you had to worry about your computer with a Windows Ethernet port not being compatible with a router providing Apple Ethernet?

[WWLink]

Man can you imagine if google, ms, apple, et all got together to make some open standards? It would be fucking awesome!

Not that it hasn't been done before, but it's been a while. x_X

[ljm]

Ironically, Google has come full circle on Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Chrome was the antidote to IE6 back in the day, packing more performance than Firefox could muster at the time. Now it is Chrome that has adopted MS's position, especially with web standards and their moves to try and block ad blocking (manifest v3, web integrity, etc.).

[skydhash]

I like Apple hardware, more so because the developers has put out great apps on them. But yes, it's mildly infuriating when considering how closed the ecosystem with no reason other than control. I have a 2011 mac mini I used as a server and Linux Mint works beautifully on it. But no proper support for Linux on M1. And HomePods not having line in. At least Apple has a Right Way (tm) for using their devices. There are worse limitations on other's device (Kindle not supporting epubs, smart TVs being smart first instead of being a TV,...)

[76SlashDolphin]

FYI, Kindle has supported ePUBs for a while now. You can even send them to your Kindle over email.