"Splintering" sounds kinda negative, which bothers me. It's a good thing if there's less in the way of walled garden monopolies.
Agreed - it's more like diversification, or "not putting all egg-users in the same basket-platform".
Diversification is definitely a better word
Is “Balkanizing” a better term?
Actually, it does sound more neutral to my ear, but I don't know why considering it's from the damn breakup of Yugoslavia, which ended with a genocide.
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