The solution here is interchange formats. These do exist but are generally never _that_ succesful because vendors of apps have to be differentiated in some way.
There are tons of examples of this, Blender cant open Maya or 3dsmax projects, because each vendor has their own differentiating features, their USPs and they have not zero, but negative incentive to help competing Apps easily support them. So we land in some middle ground where FBX or OBJ and JPG and BMP are widely supported and are the formats we can interchange between apps.
I think with all due respect what you are asking for is an impossible goal because it would require complete central co-ordination, which would remove competition and innovation, and I'm not even talking about this in a capitalist vs socialist economic frame, just in the co-ordination sense, how does the precise data model get decided, who does it and how long does it take for me to get my experimental dog poop tracking app approved and folded into the unified model? Forget about dogs I'm tracking ant movements and reproduction across seasons while recording moisture levels within the colony, does this central database have a schema for that already? if not, how can I get it in , and what if someone else was working on a similar app but was tracking reproduction of the ant colony with relation to nutrient levels and soil composition.
Strict global co-ordination is not possible, fundamentally, there is endless examples of this at whatever level you want to look at.
There are tons of examples of this, Blender cant open Maya or 3dsmax projects, because each vendor has their own differentiating features, their USPs and they have not zero, but negative incentive to help competing Apps easily support them. So we land in some middle ground where FBX or OBJ and JPG and BMP are widely supported and are the formats we can interchange between apps.
I think with all due respect what you are asking for is an impossible goal because it would require complete central co-ordination, which would remove competition and innovation, and I'm not even talking about this in a capitalist vs socialist economic frame, just in the co-ordination sense, how does the precise data model get decided, who does it and how long does it take for me to get my experimental dog poop tracking app approved and folded into the unified model? Forget about dogs I'm tracking ant movements and reproduction across seasons while recording moisture levels within the colony, does this central database have a schema for that already? if not, how can I get it in , and what if someone else was working on a similar app but was tracking reproduction of the ant colony with relation to nutrient levels and soil composition.
Strict global co-ordination is not possible, fundamentally, there is endless examples of this at whatever level you want to look at.