Last year I pointed out that Apple has effectively broken this permissionless structure and hollowed out the internet's standards bodies:
https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-crimes-against-the-internet-community/
This situation persists, and it matters because what Apple (and to a lesser extent, Google's Android team) are doing here is to enact an *enclosure agenda*.
Enclosure works by lacing open and standardised technologies with proprietary poison as the price of access, backed by legal agreements forced on everyone who wants to play.
Alex Russell
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2026-02-20 08:16:58 UTC
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