bpa wrote: > Vendors call their proprietary technologies "standard" as a marketing > ploy - but they are weapons. Open standards do not help vendors as > customer can move away from their tech - Apple created their codecs such > as ALAC, AIFF and don't support Flac. MS created WMA, WMA Lossles etc. > Vnedors do not like or want Open standards - only when customer demand > it by buying other products wuill they implemen an open standards. uPNP > was nearly reasonable but DLNA "standardised" it by minimising > functionality so there was still room for proprietary stuff. > > A long time ago - a email standard was created X.400 - it had built in > standardised (i.e. not vendor specific) authentication, encrytpion and > nonrepudiation. It has all the facilities that people need now but > vendors saw a system that would compete against their Outlook/Lotus > Notes/cc:mail etc. so the vendors X.400 implementations (required by > govts) were slow, clunky and cumbersome and vendors "persuaded" > companies & people to use their proprietary systems by making sure their > systems were quick, slick and flashy.
To me its like a sub-optimisation like why trees are wasting energy to grow higher (so that they get the sunlight from another tree ) instead of just decide on a reasonable height . In many system optimum and stability are not a the same place . It is true that vendor look in is a strategy to earn more money . Apple are the masters of it . M$ was good in thier time in the late 90's . Apple , iTunes is so big that it basically crushes several market segments . Just thinking the actual market for streaming solutions would have been much bigger much earlier without all the vendor look in and thus made more money for everyone including the "winners" of the current state . sometimes they see that like the USB cable or 4-8 ohm speakers . sometimes not ,like apples silly plugs on thier phone and pads (whats wrong with micro USB) Oh yes the file format mess in all kinds of applications , from music mail and wordprocessing . Working at a multinational corp I'm familiar with notes (yuk) and M$ product and our own license shemes for our own proprietary control software But i stop my tread drift here I'm spamming the tread sorry , but this discussion is basically endless and BPA has good insigths . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (spares Touch, SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104383 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
