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Comment by raghavtoshniwal | Hacker News Reader

Browsers are cited as an example of interoperable tech in the article. While it maybe true that *anyone* can write their browser, we see that Chrome does have inordinate amount of power. Even though it's literally based on an open-source engine that people can (and have) fork to build competing browsers, there isn't a wildly competing browser market.

Maybe just enforcing interoperability won't cut it.

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Its a valid concern. There are so many issues with the current architecture there is likely no silver bullet.

The ultimate objective is to align the interests of users with the interest of service providers (abolish the user-as-a-product business model). Interoperability may be used as a fulcrum to force some price discovery about services, or allow building new business models that add value to the users, who knows... Anything but the current dystopia

i'm 1% concerned 99% still thrilled & delighted. the interoperetability here is amazing. and there's still a lot of room for growth. especially if we start focusing on websites that support interoperation, encourage it.

Browser competition doesn't matter much for interoperability, because they don't restrict what sites you can use. It's only a risk if browsers start banning sites like the app stores do.

And open source Chromium and Firefox are bulwark against that, with active fork ecosystems.

It goes the other way now, Google blocks non-Chrome and select others: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25155451

> It's only a risk if browsers start banning sites like the app stores do.

What if browsers start banning apps from their own app stores, though?

https://hub.packtpub.com/mozilla-and-google-chrome-refuse-to...

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