Exactly. Consumer tech has been locking down APIs and actively working against interop since the advertising business model became dominant. Web 2.0 is the most obvious example, but there are plenty more.
Look, you don’t even own your own contacts on social media sites. If you access Google from an atypical browser you will get fingerprinted, captchad and rejected. Anti-scraping, anti fraud, paywalls, even lawsuits because you’re using ”our” APIs (see oracle).
It’s not the tech, it’s the business model. It’s adversarial, it’s a Mexican standoff. Doesn’t matter how good the MCP spec is, it’s not gonna go anywhere with consumer apps. As long as the economy is based on ads, your B2C company needs a sidebar to show ads (or in rare cases, subscriptions). You’re not gonna make money from providing a free API.
Exactly. Consumer tech has been locking down APIs and actively working against interop since the advertising business model became dominant. Web 2.0 is the most obvious example, but there are plenty more.
Look, you don’t even own your own contacts on social media sites. If you access Google from an atypical browser you will get fingerprinted, captchad and rejected. Anti-scraping, anti fraud, paywalls, even lawsuits because you’re using ”our” APIs (see oracle).
It’s not the tech, it’s the business model. It’s adversarial, it’s a Mexican standoff. Doesn’t matter how good the MCP spec is, it’s not gonna go anywhere with consumer apps. As long as the economy is based on ads, your B2C company needs a sidebar to show ads (or in rare cases, subscriptions). You’re not gonna make money from providing a free API.