A couple of things come to mind. 1. Is that someone demanded this from the distribution company. We know the MPAA, RIAA, etc can make odd decisions about this

A couple of things come to mind. 1. Is that someone demanded this from the distribution company. We know the MPAA, RIAA, etc can make odd decisions about this sorta thing 2. They can't find the engineers. They struggled for the Android engineers and had (still do?) have open positions for it. That's how we knew Netflix was coming to Android long before anything was seen. They had job postings for Android video experts.