@Merovius @daringfireball @otl it’s not tho. If you build a thing to work seamlessly, you should be able to without concern for making it easier for competitors to latch on. Do you expect Nintendo to host and load PlayStation games, or vice versa? Or for Ford to design their trucks to accept Chevy motors? Of course not, it’s absurd

@delric Given what PlayStation and Nintendo devices are, and how the games are created, you may expect them to be able to play the same game, sure. Given what Ford and Chevrolet engines are, you could expect them to accept the same oil, fuel, seals… (I’ll stop with the car & software analogy, they never work out well 😅). As @Merovius says, it’s about *artificial* barriers to interoperability made by companies for extracting profit.