I'll bet we could fairly easily construct a perl/awk/python script that will convert between the two, assuming one isn't already in standard use. Sounds like a waste of time to worry about it to me.

It just seems wasteful. I mean, if everyone had their own email app instead of using email standards, we wouldn't be able to email each other. In the same vein, if everyone had their own app to do standard things, like announce things, then we wouldn't develop useful standards, everyone's phone would be overloaded with apps, difficult to use, and completely useless.

Isn't that what Twitter is for? Does everyone now need their own app?