Android accounts for one-quarter of mobile web traffic
Android is mopping up Apple and RIM's declining mobile mindshare in the US, you'll find nothing but corroboration from Quantcast. The analytics firm reckons a full one-quarter of mobile web traffic stateside comes from devices running Google's OS
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The "bag or hurt" refers to the protected video path that has to be implemented to in the OS's video layer so the bitstream cannot be easily copied. See: windows vista.
So it's a little too complicated for Apple? Got it.
blu-ray is now over six years old which is "too new" for Apple, they'd prefer to sell their back catalog of compact disc players before embracing such new technologies like this.
they might be close though: http://www.google.com/search?q=blu-ray+apple
the bag of hurt will force to put drm in several part of the system, not just in a single video player but in the display driver, in the driver model, in the file manager and in the kernel.
what Apple calls a bag of hurt is more of a sack of whine, thing is their customers are waiting and have been quite patient, 'till now.
they need to catch up and bring their product line up to date, they need to ship with blu-ray instead of the outdated drives they currently sell.
Sounds pretty hurtful to me. Of course, itunes video isn't exactly open either, but at least it won't disable outputs on your computer if it thinks you're doing something funny.
It has nothing to do with capability, as obviously Apple has some of the best software engineers in the world, as does Microsoft, IBM, Sun, RedHat, etc. I want Blu-ray playback without booting into Windows, but I'm not sure I want OSX's display subsystem covered in DRM.
Also, one thing to think about is that the new Intel Nehalem quad-core "clarksfield/lynnfield" and dual-core "clarksdale/arandale" have new virtualization instructions that allow a VM to natively connect to a HARDWARE device. Besides allowing a VM to directly utilize a GPU for games, it perhaps might allow Blu-ray playback in OSX via a windows VM in VMware or parallels that uses the GPU for decoding and can get a bitsream from the BD-rom. Of course you have to buy a 3rd party BD-rom drive, but that is no biggie.