@gruber@mastodon.social @jimmylittle@mastodon.social @agiletortoise@mastodon.social The problem with enforcing the use of Apple's player means you are limited by their formats. This was a big deal with players for TV tuners: in the US broadcast TV is MPEG-2 in a TS container, a format that Apple's player does not support.

Consistency is nice. But functionality is important, too. If Apple forced their player on everyone, then I couldn't use my Apple TV to stream from my network tuner.

(I already feel that forcing web browsers to use their rendering engine is a step too far; extending the same control over media playback reeks of the same over-bearing control.)