![]() Welcome to your Xfinity Browser™, click here for Xfinitybook™ or Xfinit圜alls™ powered by Zoom™). Teleconferencing software might have required the use of a broadband operator’s app or portal (e.g. He also writes that: But just imagine, for example, how the internet might differ if it had been created by multinational media conglomerates in order to sell things, serve ads or harvest user data for profits. I totally understand that this essay may have been written to be accessible to a lay person, but the problem with this claim is that, it doesn't tell the full story.Ī lot of video conference call invites are accepted via email, and if you are doing it for the first time, you'll likely not have the Zoom client installed on your machine, so yes, Zoom has to "leverage actively maintained standards" to make a good first impression, when all a first-time user has installed is a web browser.īut as your needs expand, so will your desire to explore the best they have to offer–at which point they can nudge you towards their more powerful services, which are of course not built on (open) standards. ![]() In chapter one, Matthew writes that: Services like Zoom also work because they leverage actively maintained standards that are free to use and designed to support any device. Perhaps this is also why their actions and in-actions are grossly misunderstood.Ĭhapter One: The Creation of Today’s Internet and the Needs of Tomorrow’s I have never worked with or for Apple, neither do I own Apple stock, but as someone who has been in the industry for long enough, I can say that Apple would easily be at the top of a list of the most detailed-oriented companies, if such a list were to exist. It is not often that someone takes effort to pen a long-form piece of about 30-pages on Apple (Matthew says the essay took several months to write), but because it concerns Apple, the details matter. He was gracious enough to reply to my initial concerns on Twitter, and he did stop by to read this. Note to readers: This is a rejoinder to Matthew Ball's epic 15000-word essay of the same title, published on February 2, 2021. ![]()
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