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>>heshie+(OP)
I can only imagine Mazda's stake in this is that the OSS project is doing something that Mazda would like to monetize. Otherwise why limit a project that's making people fell better about their car purchase?

The worst thing to happen to home automation was companies trying to lock customers into their ecosystem without greater interoperability.

>>madrox+Wa
Why almost all companies make their systems difficult to customize and introperate with?

Lately I've been fighting with things like iOS, Chromecast, "smart" lightbulbs, vacuum robots and smartwatches and all of these go out of their way to lock these down and force their shitty and buggy and probably illegal spyware on me.

I'm honestly asking why this is the default. What do the companies have to lose in people making their products suck less?

>>jampek+Fe
There is no incentive to interoperate as it will only cost them profits. Something like that has to be government mandated.

>>lost_t+TX
I get that they may not care to make nice documented APIs or follow standards, but they clearly use a lot of money to actively prevent you from even reverse engineering etc.

I'd guess it's part just some knee-jerk business ideology and attempts at vendor lock-in and SaaS scams. Lock-in is clearly anticompetitive, and probably illegal, but law enforcement cares more about people smoking weed etc.

The upcoming EU data act seems to try to tackle some of these. But I have very little hope it will amount to much. EU doesn't regulate business, business regulates EU.