Post #2121202
2026-02-20 08:16 UTC
The mobile duopolists fear and loathe the potential of interoperability with the intensity of a thousand suns and the briefs of a thousand lawyers. As I type this they (primarily Apple) are doing are doing a dozen underhanded and shitty things to keep anything from threatening the monopoly they've declared on standardized, largely Open Source, features and capabilities of underlying hardware and OSes.
Want access to a USB device? Or to make games? Or to access MIDI controllers? Pay up.
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@slightlyoff@toot.cafe 2026-02-20 08:16
The path to technology that serves open societies (qua Popper) flows directly through open systems of the sort @mnot describes. And through those open systems, we can achieve the goal of interoperability, and through it, portability. And as @pluralistic will tell you, that's how you fix the outsized power of these petty tyrants. The gatekeepers only get away with extraction because they erode (and sometimes dynamite) the foundations of portable, interoperable computing: open access to APIs.
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@skybrian@mastodon.social 2026-02-20 15:05
@slightlyoff Chrome has API's for these things and you can do a lot in a web app.