RTC@Scale 2024 – an event summary
RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
Read MoreTimes change. Browsers are now part of operating systems. Is it time for VoIP to take that leap as well?
Remember years back when Microsoft had to pay fines for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows? While this is still going on to some extent, do you feel that browsers today aren't an integral part of an operating system?
Look at Android and iOS – they both come bundled with a web browser. No antitrust there.
It is obvious today that the definition of what an operating system is has changed – and it now includes a browser. In many operating systems, you can even open up your own "webview" inside a native application – that's a component used to access the web browser directly and embed it into an application of your own.
Microsoft recently confirmed their plans to bundle Skype into Windows. Some see it as an opportunity for another antitrust case. I think it is time to redefine the operating system yet again.
Here are some thoughts I have, in no specific order on this topic:
Skype preinstalled on Windows? Fine. Where's the news here?
The operating system is being redefined in the past 6 years. I wish I knew what's coming next.
RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
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