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AirPlay is a proprietary protocol stack/suite. Apple chooses to license this on their terms. This is their technology to for their competitive advantage to us
by jyap 14y ago
AirPlay is a proprietary protocol stack/suite. Apple chooses to license this on their terms. This is their technology to for their competitive advantage to use against companies products such as say your company, Google.
Apple does not want an unlicensed and unauthorized app to use AirPlay on their app store. Case closed.
AirPlay isn't HTTP so don't compare the 2. Your comment about encryption is moot.
- jrockway 14y agoAirPlay is a proprietary protocol stack/suite. It was at one point. But then The Internets figured out how it worked, and now it's as easy for someone to implement as any other open protocol. Remember: no particular legal protection applies to protocols. Apple is kicking Rogue Amoeba out of the app store out of pure malice, not because of any law that was violated. ("We'd like to sell you this product, but you figured out how to make it yourself, so you're gone.")
- stonemetal 14y agostore out of pure malice, not because of any law that was violated. Two things no law broken, no charges filed no lawsuits presented. Pure maliace, hardly more like appropriate response to broken contract.
- regularfry 14y agoAirPlay seems to me to be about as proprietary as SMB.