How to Use interoperability in a Sentence

interoperability

noun
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  • The lack of clean interoperability has become such a headache that more people have started to push harder for the two platforms to get along.
    — WIRED, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The drawback of the second pathway is the lack of interoperability.
    — David Lucatch, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
  • The Fed says interoperability is a goal but may not be achievable early on.
    — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Meanwhile, Law also sets his sights on interoperability, a key idea in Web3 in which items bought in one game can be used in another.
    — Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • With just a few weeks to go before that time is up, WhatsApp is detailing how its interoperability with other apps may work.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 6 Feb. 2024
  • As quick-off-the-mark adopters such as Nike and Gucci have indicated, now is a pivotal time for sketching out the ad boundaries of this brave new world—and the interoperability of platforms within it.
    — Ben Plomion, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • However, with the new interoperability of large platforms, using clean rooms requires less heavy lifting on the back end.
    — Kristin Frank, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Plug-in interoperability is just a small part of Microsoft’s AI announcements at Build this week.
    — Tom Warren, The Verge, 23 May 2023
  • Nikeland could be subsumed into Swoosh, but interoperability will surely have to be front and center for that to succeed.
    — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Cass: So, that actually leads me to my next question, which is about that issue of interoperability and standardization and so on.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Sep. 2023
  • That hurdle of interoperability is what’s truly keeping the smart home from advancing, so the companies that make most of these devices are banding together to try to solve it.
    — Gear Team, Wired, 6 Jan. 2022
  • And that that protocol would allow for interoperability and for kind of a global commodities settlement layer, and that would be built on blockchains.
    — Byjustin Doom, Fortune Crypto, 18 July 2023
  • As is often the case in systems that have been around for a decade or more, interoperability is virtually non-existent, data is hard to find and efficiency is a pipe dream.
    — Annie Brown, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2021
  • When the metaverse finally takes shape — and the proper protocols of interoperability are in place — whose worlds will interact?
    — Michael Polk, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Adapters can be made available at low cost to allow interoperability.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • If there was interoperability, those switching costs would come down.
    — Christopher Byrd, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Sadly, despite the promise of interoperability, the big smart home players don’t play nicely together on Thread yet.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
  • This lack of interoperability leads to a major annoyance, for some.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2022
  • But Epic Games has become a major influence on the current wave of cross-platform interoperability between game consoles and PCs.
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The blockchain acts as a shared resource that forces interoperability, almost like organic self-defense.
    — Vijith Assar, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The new smart home interoperability standard means the company no longer has to spend time and money building integrations with each platform.
    — Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Since smart homes are a prerequisite for a smarter grid, if Matter can achieve its aim of interoperability, one of the main barriers to better home energy management will come down.
    — Simon Hill, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Congress has tried to create interoperability with 21st Century Cures but progress has been slow.
    — Bob Kocher, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But the hurdles to true interoperability, defined as access to the full electronic health record, are indeed surmountable.
    — John C. (jack) Lewin and Jane Delgado, STAT, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The shift toward interoperability will first include text messages, images, voice messages, videos, and files sent from one person to another.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 6 Feb. 2024
  • This interoperability will start with text messages, images, voice messages, videos and file transfer.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2024
  • For a group of data innovators within healthcare, there is a sense that this is the time when the promise of interoperability becomes a reality and healthcare begins to transform.
    — Joe Gagnon, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The goal is interoperability – companies should be able to collect relevant data once and then report it in any format required.
    — Felicia Jackson, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Ofcom highlighted the fees paid when transferring data out of the cloud, a lack of interoperability, and discounting which might encourage staying with a single provider.
    — Katharine Gemmell, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The goal should be to achieve true interoperability rather than just collaboration.
    — Andrew Metrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024

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