I never argued that standardization is bad I even said in one of my replies to you that I am for standardization if current security measures for example in iMessage are met or exceeded. Currently with RCS that involves protocols and Google is very vocal about wanting others to use RCS, but to get the same security standard would require one to use a protocol that supports E2E encryption and that would be for instance Google-Google protocol, Samsung-Samsung protocol, Apple-Apple protocol, these will not work Google-Apple encryption. I think you may have been mistaken when I stated using Google to not look up how standardization could be good, but you even though a hypothetical with IBM because we don't know what would have actually happened if IBM didn't set the standard because we can't go back in time to see what would happen. Standardization can also lead to stagnation in your provided examples, it takes companies making things like VHS tapes and whatnot obsolete. So standardization is good and beneficial until it isn't and no one knows how long the new standard will last. In the examples you provided being VHS, Betamax, heck even CDs, and whatnot the standard shifting caused a lot of waste too and makes things like getting repairs/updates/fixes more difficult if you happen to fall in purchasing something at the end/beginning of a standard shift.like i said standards are essential to technology. Then Google is your friend here to search for the reasoning. If you don't understand that by the examples provided...I cannot help you.
🔎 why are standards good for technology - Google Search
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Standards allow technology to work seamlessly and establish trust so that markets can operate smoothly. They: provide a common language to measure and evaluate performance, make interoperability of components made by different companies possible,
Why is standardization important in technology?
To achieve efficient or "seamless" integration, the standards and protocols define what rules hardware components must adhere to in order to exchange signals between applications software and operating systems at different levels in the network.
Why are standards important in computing?
Standards enable the global interoperability of technical solutions while ensuring that the technical progress can be applied smoothly on a global scale. Without international standards it would be much more difficult to interact with partners in different countries or on different continents.
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Driving interoperability, ecosystem development, and future innovation.
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Standards are important because they enable technologies and even industries to progress faster than they would on their own. If IBM had not set the PC standard, the development of computers, hardware and software, would not have progressed as fast as it has. Even with these benefits companies are very cautious in their approach to standards. There has been much hype recently about the need to change the established standards board model to one that follows the Internet model of setting standards on the fly. This paper will argue that basic considerations in setting standards have not changed as much as people say. Although standards boards have been instrumental in many ways throughout the years, many product and industry standards are settles by market forces. The issues of standard setting in the classic example of a standards war, VHS versus Betamax, are still the same issues confronting today's standards decisions.
There literally is too many to list here so I will leave those examples for a 30 second Google search.
Then by all means look at USB C...if lightening was so good why did Apple put USB C on high end iPads? This was BEFORE being made to do so for iPhones? All this lead to was fragmentation and confusion.
Then your paragraph about RCS exemplifies the reason for a standard messaging platform across the board.
Listen I don't care if that standard is RCS or iMessage. They need to stop fragmentation and evolve to one standard.
Again, I will say it again sure give me a standard in messaging and even interoperability where not one company basically rules them all, because as stated and widely known RCS in its standard form would not last long because of the standard file size capability. For example, the STANDARD for RCS is 100MB file size limit, and with phones recording in 4K if someone records at 60 fps it would be about 400MB per minute approx 4x the standard limit for RCS so the standard still doesn't solve the sending videos to people. What would solve it is the protocols used for compression and sending, but wait that would fall back on the company specific protocol requirement. I am not going to continue beating the drum of the security issues.
"Then by all means look at USB C...if lightening was so good why did Apple put USB C on high end iPads? This was BEFORE being made to do so for iPhones? All this lead to was fragmentation and confusion."
I never stated that lightening was better did I? that must be how you interpreted it.... I said that the STANDARD for USB-C is the same as the capability of lightening, therefore the ONLY benefit of the forced change is cable use. I never said that was bad, I never said that wasn't wanted by the worldwide majority, I never said anything bad about the change, look at my signature all of the devices I own had USB-C prior to the iPhone change, with the exception of my Airpods Pro because the change to USB-C for those was (for me) no reason to buy the new standard since nothing but the cable changed.
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