Proprietary tech is never without standards; it just has some embrace-and-extend angle on something, or some niche or whatever.
Imagine if every city had differently shaped power outlets and voltages; how much fun would it be to innovate in the home appliance space?
Crack open anything proprietary and there is a ton of standard, recognizable parts that could be substituted from multiple vendors.
I then found that most podcast players don’t either.
https://podnews.net/article/chapter-points-a-waste-of-time
Proprietary tech is never without standards; it just has some embrace-and-extend angle on something, or some niche or whatever.
Imagine if every city had differently shaped power outlets and voltages; how much fun would it be to innovate in the home appliance space?
Crack open anything proprietary and there is a ton of standard, recognizable parts that could be substituted from multiple vendors.