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#interoperability

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"TL;DR: On iOS in the EU, selecting a third-party browser from the choice screen replaces Safari in the hotseat (dock), ensuring the user’s choice is respected. This change has already led to meaningful gains in market share; Mozilla, for example, saw its daily active users double in France and Germany on iOS, where the hotseat change is implemented. DuckDuckGo’s findings suggest that replacing Safari in the hotseat boosted the iOS choice screen’s effectiveness by a factor of nine. Yet Google refuses to make an equivalent change on Android, relying on an unreasonably narrow and, in our view, incorrect interpretation of the Digital Markets Act. Even when users choose a different browser, Chrome remains prominently placed, undermining their decision and steering them back toward Google’s own product."

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/goo

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Looking forward v much to our discussion this morning at the UK's Competition & Markets Authority on : lessons (for the ) from regulation!

Tim Cowen (Preiskell & Co.) and Prof. @chrismarsden.bsky.social are both world authorities on this topic 👀 And we have a surprise guest to talk about payments & water regulation lessons!

Here are my background slides docs.google.com/presentation/d

Google DocsInterop demosInteroperability is already here… …it’s just unevenly distributed (William Gibson)

I don't find #Meta's claims that other companies just don't want #interoperability very convincing 🙄 But until @ec.europa.eu designates OTHER gatekeeper #NIICS, it is unsurprising #Meta will push back at every opportunity, since the firm cannot take advantage of any OTHER #gatekeeper offer #DMA

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@mamund thank you. I will also give the linked article on agentic systems a read.

Note that #ActivityPub here on the #fediverse has this need to discover and introspect the capabilities of actor endpoints on the network.

This entirely missing. With #ActivityStreams #LinkedData endlessly versatile, a player on the fediverse can freely invent their own flavours on-the-fly, introducing protocol decay and makes #interoperability harder.

Whack-a-mole driven development to moving targets ensues.

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@steve @drahardja @dfyx

I'd say post-facto interop covers the load..

> Post facto #interoperability [is] the absolute market dominance of a particular product in contravention of any applicable standards [..]. The vendor behind that product can then choose to ignore any forthcoming standards and not co-operate in any standardization process at all, using its near-monopoly to insist that its product sets the de facto standard by its very market dominance.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interope

en.wikipedia.orgInteroperability - Wikipedia