On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Duncan Bayne <[email protected]> wrote: > In fact, my understanding is that the solution you describe (individual > apps, silo'd in their respective ecosystems / app-stores) is exactly the > situation that people are trying to fix with EME. > > Of course, the solution of EME + closed source, proprietary, hardware- > and OS-tied CDM is technologically and socially identical to having > playback apps.
Not quite. In the non-Web (aka. "native") app case on iOS, an app developer can license non-Apple DRM such as Adobe Access (http://www.adobe.com/support/adobeaccess/pdfs/client/ios_readme.pdf) or Microsoft PlayReady (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/sep13/09-13playreadypr.aspx). Does anyone seriously expect the only Web engine that's allowed on iOS to support non-Apple DRM via EME? -- Henri Sivonen [email protected] https://hsivonen.fi/
