While RDK has achieved a lot of great things in 2021, the RDK Central community probably won’t thank us for summarizing this as the year the open source RDK video ecosystem became a lot more like Android TV. We have reached that consensus despite being deprived of a single physical demo from either camp this year (and last, for that matter), instead collating conversations with countless technology vendors of all flavors. Oh, and how could we forget Faultline’s infamous “hacking” scandal of an online RDK event earlier this year, as the panicked PR team worded it in an accusation, despite sending an invite straight to our inbox. That was certainly a 2021 highlight on our part. As for what’s new…