Source: Blog – Hackaday
The revival of obsolete protocols on maker platforms signals a critical gap in the connectivity stack—as standardized interfaces consolidate around USB, specialized industries (film, audio, industrial control) are being forced into uncomfortable choices between legacy systems and forced technological migration, revealing how “open” ecosystems still create lock-in through neglect rather than design. This pattern will intensify across medical devices, manufacturing, and other mission-critical sectors that can’t afford the disruption of sudden OS-level incompatibility.