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Have you heard of this thing called Flash? Or Adobe Acrobat? Silverlight? MS Edge? Uber (the app, and incidentally actually/metaphorically Unicorn)? Google Maps
by matt4077 10y ago
Have you heard of this thing called Flash? Or Adobe Acrobat? Silverlight? MS Edge? Uber (the app, and incidentally actually/metaphorically Unicorn)? Google Maps? Netflix for iOS?
- vetinari 10y agoFlash is not free. Flash Player is. Flash is actually for-money product. Adobe Acrobat is also for-money product. You probably meant Adobe Reader, which is similarly positioned to Acrobat like Flash Player to Flash. Silverlight was and Edge is a way for Microsoft to prove value of the Windows platform, and in case of Silverlight, also of Microsoft developer tools. Isn't Uber, the app, a way to sell services? Doesn't Netflix for iOS sell Netflix subscriptions? Isn't Google Maps, together with all Google apps, a way to keep people online, use Google Search... and provide Google audience for ads? Neither of these would be true for a free DRM. Just like Flash player was financed by selling Flash, Reader by selling Acrobat, Silverlight by selling Visual Studio, Edge by selling Windows, Uber and Netflix by selling services, Google apps by selling ads - what would you be selling in order to provide freely embeddable DRM binary? And tangent question, how would you build your brand?
- matt4077 10y agoI'd be giving away the client for my streaming service.