*** REPORT-print-previous.md 2022-06-30 11:39:18.000000000 +0100 --- REPORT-print.md 2022-06-30 11:45:03.000000000 +0100 *************** *** 28,34 **** ### Version * This report was generated at: ! * 2022/06/30 10:39:17 UTC. * Announcement blog post at: * URL TBC * Latest versions of this report are available at: --- 28,34 ---- ### Version * This report was generated at: ! * 2022/06/30 10:45:03 UTC. * Announcement blog post at: * URL TBC * Latest versions of this report are available at: *************** *** 2995,3010 **** Each app internally provides morphology and syntax structures to better transport these expressions for us. Messaging apps are *expressive media*, and -- like the opposite of a ! *Pidgin* ^[*Pidgin*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin] -- each of these apps embiggens our native language(s) in different ways that make them more fit for online expression. We benefit from ! more difference and diversity of approach in this embiggening -- in ! how apps are engineered to help us *express* ourselves better, so that ! there is evolution and improvement. We need more and different and diverse apps, not fewer and more ! standardised. Demanding "open APIs" to whatever, to enable "open ! markets", will not deliver the improvements that we need. Regulators -- following their usual playbook -- believe that apps are fungible, technological, monopolistic transport media, deserving of --- 2995,3013 ---- Each app internally provides morphology and syntax structures to better transport these expressions for us. Messaging apps are *expressive media*, and -- like the opposite of a ! *pidgin* ^[*pidgin*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin] -- each of these apps embiggens our native language(s) in different ways that make them more fit for online expression. We benefit from ! having *more difference* and *more diversity* of approach in this ! embiggening -- in how apps are engineered to help us *express* ! ourselves better, so that there is evolution and improvement. We need more and different and diverse apps, not fewer and more ! standardised. Demanding "a single inbox" shuns this change. The state ! calling for "interoperability" above all else -- in order to enable ! "open markets" of startup access to cattle-like users -- will not ! deliver, and indeed will even *hamper*, evolution of the improvements ! that we need. Regulators -- following their usual playbook -- believe that apps are fungible, technological, monopolistic transport media, deserving of