I don’t disagree, but the sort of thing I’m talking about was possible under Capitalism in the late 2000s-Mid 2010s, and it’s still technically/theoretically possible even with horrid Capitalistic practices.
A good example of this is Single Sign On technology. The average person sees it with all the sites that offer “Sign in with Google/Facebook/Apple” options, but I’m talking about business software/platforms specifically.
There are around 2-3 (open) standards for SSO, and most companies use an identity provider that support them like Microsoft’s Azure/Entra ID.
In my experience, about 75% of enterprise systems support SSO, and a lot charge a meager fee to enable it on their end. Then boom, configure both sides and it just works. Because both sides support the standard, you just match up the two puzzle pieces and it goes. Capitalists stay happy by charging a fee to “enable” it.
So Capitalism definitely drives the walled garden mentality, but it’s even more that these people are too dumb to monetize things well. They want a little of every pie they can manage to half ass rather than trying to be the best in what they do while enabling ease of use for their data in other products that aren’t actually competitors to them until they decide to half ass their way into another market/piece of functionality.
It’s a shame that so many people in the West have ruled out socialism and communism
I don’t disagree, but the sort of thing I’m talking about was possible under Capitalism in the late 2000s-Mid 2010s, and it’s still technically/theoretically possible even with horrid Capitalistic practices.
A good example of this is Single Sign On technology. The average person sees it with all the sites that offer “Sign in with Google/Facebook/Apple” options, but I’m talking about business software/platforms specifically.
There are around 2-3 (open) standards for SSO, and most companies use an identity provider that support them like Microsoft’s Azure/Entra ID.
In my experience, about 75% of enterprise systems support SSO, and a lot charge a meager fee to enable it on their end. Then boom, configure both sides and it just works. Because both sides support the standard, you just match up the two puzzle pieces and it goes. Capitalists stay happy by charging a fee to “enable” it.
So Capitalism definitely drives the walled garden mentality, but it’s even more that these people are too dumb to monetize things well. They want a little of every pie they can manage to half ass rather than trying to be the best in what they do while enabling ease of use for their data in other products that aren’t actually competitors to them until they decide to half ass their way into another market/piece of functionality.