• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    interoperability is the capability of a product or system to interact and function with others. Why would that force them to all function the same? Why would that be bad for us as consumers? Why does it matter how many choices we have if those choices restrict us to using a specific one? Interoperability solves all of these and causes none of the problems you are stating. Of course they have no incentive for doing this as it doesn’t benefit a corporation, they’re only incentivized to entrap people in their ecosystems cause it makes them the most money. Different messaging standards is one of the ways they keep us locked in. This is a choice, too, one made by the tech giants for you with no choice in the matter. You can’t send a nice quality picture from iMessage to Google Messages, get fukt.

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      11 months ago

      How else do you make them interop, other than by finding a common mapping?

      Why would any company map their extended or unique elements, which they developed, to meet government regs?

      They won’t, they’ll drop to the least effort required to get the regulators off their backs.

      I have a choice. Apple users have a choice. There are plenty of other messenging systems out there.

      MS Teams

      Skype

      Element

      SimpleX

      Signal

      Telegram

      Wire

      Wiremin

      Litewire

      Discord

      Conversations

      Snikket

      Briar

      Zello

      TwinMe

      Tox

      Keybase

      Threema

      Whatsapp

      Jami

      XMPP (which some listed use)

      Just go to Wikipedia for a long list of different messengers and their capabilities.

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        Choice is nice, but my problem is the choices can’t communicate with each other correctly. Thats an issue. Its an issue when our communication devices are not effective at communicating what we want to. We are already seeing the bare ass minimum right now, which is just SMS. They’re doing that now, the bare minimum. If Apple was forced to fix their shitty conversion instead of it just picking the worst resolution possible, they would do it. It doesn’t matter what app I use because most people in the US use iMessage, and thats where I do most of my communicating.