This is something very spiritually close to a concept I recently learned about from Cory Doctorow’s talk at DEFCON called Adversarial Interoperability:
As many have noted the reason this functionality is not available is because it invariably leads to commodification of services. Competitors will quickly jump in and use those APIs to interoperate to bootstrap themselves up.
Most likely for consumers that is a huge win, but for companies that is a dangerous filter that filers out companies that stagnate.
This used to be common back in the day and was keeping companies from stagnation, that was until per Cory’s arguments there have been an explosion of laws that basically outlawed Adversarial Interoperability. Which in turn led to too big to fail software giants we have today.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...
As many have noted the reason this functionality is not available is because it invariably leads to commodification of services. Competitors will quickly jump in and use those APIs to interoperate to bootstrap themselves up.
Most likely for consumers that is a huge win, but for companies that is a dangerous filter that filers out companies that stagnate.
This used to be common back in the day and was keeping companies from stagnation, that was until per Cory’s arguments there have been an explosion of laws that basically outlawed Adversarial Interoperability. Which in turn led to too big to fail software giants we have today.