How free is a platform when all roads lead to Meta?
Mark Zuckerberg wants to own the future of computing — but not alone. That’s the intended takeaway from this year’s Meta Connect, where the Meta CEOfor a new computing platform. “In each generation of computing that I’ve seen so far — PCs, mobile — there’s basically an open ecosystem and there’s a closed ecosystem,” Zuckerberg said. “I strongly believe that an open, interoperable metaverse built by many different developers and companies is going to be better for everyone.
“Openness” is typically considered a good thing in computing. It can promote competition and let people use tech in creative ways the designers didn’t expect. But Zuckerberg’s definition of an “open ecosystem” might surprise some people who support that ideal. For now, he’s not describing a world where people can use a new platform on their own terms rather than those of major companies.
This is meant as a comparison with Apple, which manages every piece of its supply chain — so you can’t buy an iOS or macOS-powered device from a non-Apple hardware maker. But it unintentionally casts Meta’s approach to VR in a less favorable light, too.In PCs, I think you’d say that Windows during the ’90s and 2000s especially was really the primary ecosystem in computing. The open ecosystem was winning.
These are two of the funniest sentences you could string back to back about the Microsoft of the 1990s and early 2000s. It’s true the company formed supply chain partnerships in a way Apple didn’t, including the “Wintel” team-up that helped launch its business alongside Intel. It also dictated their terms with an iron fist. It squeezed out other operating systems by making hardware companies
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