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the computer industry had no trouble adopting such standards. 95% of your computer is 100% interchangeable with mine. Hard drives, power supplies, graphics cards, sound cards, CD drives, card readers, ram for the most part(There's a couple of different standards but all brands use the same ones). They remain profitable. I see no reason why the big players in RC radios can't agree on a single spread-spectrum system that lets any Tx bind with any Rx like we used to do in the FM and AM days. Honestly I think there'd be money to be made doing such a thing!
The computer industry major players elected to join a consortium and establish some standards.
In spite of that there was a major attempt to keep things proprietary.... and of course little things like the government helped put the kabash on that.
( Microsoft and Apple still love to take public domain "standards" and modify them a bit, then call them their own proprietary work... ugh... )
We don't have such things working in our favor.
It is not co-incidental that as the first Futaba and JR RX clones start appearing, both companies come out with new "standards" and drop their old product lines.
If I were in their shoes, looking to keep my margins up, I'd do likewise... though as I hobbiest I'd LOVE to see real interoperability, or at the least modular swapouts that provide interoperability at a cheaper price.