Private companies competing for things ends up with stuff like this. Unless NASA or someone designs a spec and contractually enforces everyone to implement it, problems like this can crop up in all kinds of places.
And that’s why we have the EU telling apple and their fanboys to eat shit and use USB-C :) without these legislators we get the chaos you mention
For consumer products I don’t agree with enforcing it through the beginning though as it might hinder innovation. But once you have a few working cases you enforce the better one
And in new fields of privatization, someone has to win out on the standard. It should have been NASA demanding an interoperable spec but someone will win out here eventually and it will be standard in the future.
Private companies competing for things ends up with stuff like this. Unless NASA or someone designs a spec and contractually enforces everyone to implement it, problems like this can crop up in all kinds of places.
In most fields, even private companies understand the need for industry standards.
Only when it’s their standard most of the time, which is the reason why we have so many standards for so many things that do basically the same thing
And that’s why we have the EU telling apple and their fanboys to eat shit and use USB-C :) without these legislators we get the chaos you mention
For consumer products I don’t agree with enforcing it through the beginning though as it might hinder innovation. But once you have a few working cases you enforce the better one
Yeah, like how Apple works with other phone and tablet manufacturers to use a unified charging and data port.
I can’t tell if this is sarcastic because Apple contributed over 20% of the engineers credited with developing USB-C.
It’s sarcasm, because it took EU legislation to force them to actually fucking use it in their phones a decade later.
And in new fields of privatization, someone has to win out on the standard. It should have been NASA demanding an interoperable spec but someone will win out here eventually and it will be standard in the future.
XLCD: Standards
When you make a new standard to consolidate related-but-drifting standards, all you’ve done is make n+1 standards.