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Story: BBC 'committed' to iPlayer platform neutrality
So *who* made it *completely* locked-in to Microsoft?
What *is* the market for something like the iPlayer?
Certainly *not* the plain old desktop Windows(TM) PC. If you are at home, where are you going to watch TV? On your Windows(TM) PC, or on your TV?
No, by far the bigger market for something like the iPlayer is:
Portable Media Players (Apple 70-80%, others 20-30%, Microsoft 0%)
Mobile phones (Everyone else 94%, Microsoft 6%)
Consumer electronics devices (eg Tivo-like - and here *Linux* has more market share than Microsoft).
The 'market share' arguments sounds untirely hollow unless you have been brainwashed (or paid to appear that way) by the 'whole world is the PC' religion that Microsoft have been trying to inflict on everyone and appear to have succeeded with certain individuals within the BBC.
No, it simply doesn't add up, and someone in the BBC needs to figure out a much more convincing story than they have so far because more and more of the world has *smelt a rat*...
*What* is the real story?
*Who* did the deal with Microsoft?
*Why* have the traditions of the BBC been *betrayed*? and for how much?
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