One brand of gasoline will power your car as well as any other, which is why diesel cars represent bad technology, despite their other advantages. One advantage of standardization is that it promotes interoperability, which means that you have choices, that you are not locked into one supplier or one vendor. Technology that requires you to own an Apple computer to play a video or that you connect with AOL in order to send e-mail is bad technology. I can't believe how much of this bad technology we have purchased over the years, and conclude that it must be only because there is no alternative. I hope it will be replaced.
Good technology is simple.
I try to install and run the program without using a manual. Running the program is a different matter. To use an elevator, I press the floor number. To make a phone call, I dial the number. Simplicity goes hand in hand with range of function.