[0x0]

I don't think you can just run 'sed' on any random iOS app, any random symbian app, any random smart-TV app, some other guy's service that hits your APIs and feeds, and so on... :)

[reedloden]

Now, that could be a valid issue, indeed, though not sure for how long I care about those devices continuing to work without any valid upgrade path... Using things like HSTS and CSP's `upgrade-insecure-requests` would help here for clients that do support it.

[Symbiote]

You might not care, but the BBC does — it's one of the issues they mention in the blog post.

If the BBC "channels" stopped working, but other providers' content continues to work, the BBC would be blamed.