Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature
by tomkarlo on Thursday April 11, 2013 @09:28PM
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How, in any way, did they "sabotage open standards like RSS"? That's a pretty broad statement to throw out there - that Google is somehow undermining the open standards process. I'd argue it's done better than other companies, including Apple and Microsoft, in supporting open standards.
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Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature
by lxst on Friday April 12, 2013 @04:38AM
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One example would be Calendar. First they announce that they retire EAS for CalDav. A few month later they announce that CalDAV will be deprecated and only available for selected developers and other services should use the proprietary Google calendar API.
Which is kinda sad as Google could have really improved CalDAV with their move. Now it is back to "walled garden".
Re:You know, Google, the web already had this feature
by tomkarlo on Friday April 12, 2013 @02:04PM
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While I think that pattern sucks, I'm not sure that "not supporting" a standard constitutes "sabotaging" it. There's a big gap between "promoting" and "destroying/undermining", it's not either-or. Saying Google "sabotaged" a standard implies that they somehow made it unusable for everyone.