Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Posted May 16, 2014 13:00 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Firefox gets closed-source DRM by krake
Parent article: Firefox gets closed-source DRM

Take a look on iOS “ecosystem”. Apple rules it with iron fist. One can not do anything without Apple's approval. Yet people only pick Android over iPhone because it's cheaper. In countries where iPhone is subsidized (and thus cheap) it's market share is much higher.

Yes, some people refuse to do anything with Apple's devices because they are fatally crippled (you can never “own” them: practically speaking you are renting them, not buying), I'm one of these, but there are so few of us that it does not really matter, we are below statistical error when our numbers are counted.

Story with Snowden is similar: there are huge amount of snake oil salesmens which sell you “painless crypto” which is, in best case, a pointless placebo, but very few picked real painful and unconvenient crypto after Snowden revelations.