> We just never stopped to truly think about it and try.
Oh, you are right about this. But a lot of people stopped to think about it. It always seemed to fail due to market failures, like most other innovations in development.
Yes, the network effects of pre-existing platforms are big. But we should keep trying I think. I think such a platform should also be inclusive enough hat it can act as a glue layer for and INSIDE existing platforms, but have richer semantics than say JSON, Protobuff or similar protocols offer.
Oh, you are right about this. But a lot of people stopped to think about it. It always seemed to fail due to market failures, like most other innovations in development.