- From: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 23:50:09 +0000
- To: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "<public-html@w3.org>" <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 2, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: >> On Mar 2, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >>> Having >>> service-lock-in based on my hardware is just so brain-breakingly bad I >>> can't imagine how this even crossed your fingers without them cramping >>> from the blasphemy. :/ >>> >> >> Either you mis-understood me, or we have remarkably different views of the world ;-) >> >> I'm not talking about any kind of lock-in, just about products which ship with some apps pre-installed. I hope that soon it will be possible for users to install apps on these products, including web apps. And I hope that those web apps will be able to stream all kinds of video. That's exactly why we need the standardization we propose. > > You said "[customers] don't expect to be able to watch Netflix on the > one without the badge". How should I have interpreted that? Ok, what I meant was that customers should not expect to buy a TV that does not support Netflix, plug it into the Internet and *without any other device* access our service. People intuitively understand that the TV needs some kind of 'Netflix-stuff' inside it to be able to access Netflix on the TV alone. A customer can, of course, get *another* device that supports our service, plug that into the TV, and watch on the TV. I was pointing out a qualitative difference from the expectation of a customer who buys an mp3 from vendor X and expects it work on any mp3 player, whether or not the player contains any 'X-stuff' ...Mark > > ~TJ >
Received on Friday, 2 March 2012 23:50:38 UTC