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>>gjsman+(OP)
This is exactly how 3rd party apps and clients will be locked out of the services they depend on. In a world where AR and "metaverse" platforms take off, this will ensure that they're accessed only from approved clients.

This is also how OS, app distributors and platforms will ensure that they get their 30%+ cut of all revenue generated using their products, as well.

Similarly, this is how OS providers will ensure that apps built for their platforms can't run on other operating systems. You already can't run SafetyNet-enabled Android apps on other platforms despite Android support existing on Android and Linux.

>>heavys+Pa
We've gone from open Windows and Linux PCs where you could install anything to walled gardens everywhere.

We need to bring the giants down to a level playing field and stop this nonsense.

>>echelo+jl
Completely agree. How could such a thing be achieved?

>>matheu+Ql
You probably don't want to hear this, but one way it could happen is the Russians will get locked out of all this stuff because of sanctions, so they'll have to create their own separate open world. Yandex will build the open platform like they are releasing big language models and are not scared of the consequences of the bad people, like the Russians, getting ahold of them. Yes, the open platform will be lame compared to what the majors are offering, but Linux on the Desktop was never spectacular either.

>>narrat+pn
> You probably don't want to hear this

Why? Part of what you said is something I already believe in. I think it's only a matter of time before the international network we enjoyed in the early days of the internet is destroyed by governments and their eternal struggle to impose their own incompatible laws on it. One day the internet will fracture into several regional networks with well delimited and filtered borders.

I for one am glad to have known the internet. It was truly one of the most wonderful creations of humanity.