[jonny_eh]

What if Apple decides to ban Netflix from the store due to a perceived slight, or because Apple decides to compete directly?

[Aissen]

Then it's a very good thing so people understand that you cannot rely on a platform where one company has all the power on what can run and what can't. Maybe it'd spring see nice anti-competitive trials. Results being irrelevant, as long as people understand that locked platforms are bad.

[munificent]

Switch to an Android phone?

[WiseWeasel]

Apple won't support this browser encryption extension scheme on iDevices in any case.

[Terretta]

Native player supports AES 128 encrypted video.

Earlier iOS supports encrypted chunks, iOS 6 and up supports encryption of audio and video samples as well.

[speleding]

The HTML5 based DRM would require a binary blob for the browser so that's not likely to happen for the iPad/iPhone anyway.