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by outadoc 2129 days ago
> iOS for example, is technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility, but the App Store model limits it to a few narrow and specific use-cases

Injecting third-party code into a third-party app that has to deal with DRM sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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AriaMinaei 2129 days ago
Well don't even get me started on DRM :)

But this particular use-case would still play well with DRM as it's implemented today. Netflix on the browser still has DRM, but since the <video> element is standard, it can still be hooked into and decorated.

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outadoc 2126 days ago
Sure... but "technically perfectly capable of supporting this kind of extensibility" is not true in my opinion, you'd need quite a few changes to allow this to happen safely. Apple doesn't even want apps to be sideloaded, so that's a stretch :)
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