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0 pointsrollcat3y ago0 comments

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.

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kuschku3y 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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