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There is zero incentive to create or support such a thing. No recurring revenue or lock in opportunities. It could only happen if it were mandated.

Open source could do it in theory, but only for nerds. Open source can’t create mass adoptable products because making technology easy to use is fabulously expensive and difficult.

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So if the market can't achieve this, regulate. We live in a world built on standards, but industries like IoT have developed since the US went batshit and decided that sort of thing amounts to impurifying precious bodily fluids. Maybe the EU will do something to sort it out.

Maybe you are forgetting software industry is pretty inmature. Thats why we struggle with standards, quality, hell even job description (engineer is in certain countries regulated job name). Not mentioning interoperabilty, long term support (ics/scada anyone) or security. This is still wild wild west in 1850+. Civilization is pushing but…

Some things shouldn’t depend on market incentive. This is a fundamental problem with technology, which by and large is unaware of any other technology than itself. This makes it burdensome to use several devices together in a useful manner. Going forward, I don’t think anyone would dispute there’s going to be more tech around. Maybe it’s time for something truly progressive, and mandate this?

I don’t think the market alone would create a unified rail or telephone network. Yet that has brought immense benefits for society at large, and vendors still manage to capitalise on top of the plumbing.

What if governments mandated educating everyone to be tech-literate? Could we reduce the gap between the current tech-savvy elite and everyone else?

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