Apple competition meets: common standard for data transfers

Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter – these four big names have teamed up for a new standardization initiative called the Data Transfer Project to provide a unified form of data transfer between different platforms for users in the future, reports The Verge. In a blog post, Google describes the project so that users "can transfer data directly from one service to another without having to download and download them again."

Currently, the "Data Transfer Project" supports the transfer of photos. Emails, contacts, calendar entries and reminders or tasks. Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter are laying the foundation for a common standard for data transfers between different platforms.

Apple Store Grand Central New York, Photo: Apple

Microsoft has already publicly stated in a public statement that more businesses should participate in the # 39, initiative, stating that the opportunities offered by this standardization initiative "… are essential for the future of the cloud and competition" The bulk of programming to date has been developed by the software engineers of Google and Microsoft have been working for a long time on a more robust data transmission system.

Apple seems to be doing his own thing again in this case. As a technology giant of this size, Apple would be predestined to be part of the data transfer project. In the past, the Cupertino company often separated from its own connections such as the Lightning connection or the software of other technology companies. That Apple is refusing this time a common solution or that the initiative remains to be seen.

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