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2014-04-04, 02:08
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-04, 02:10 by Verno.)
I highly doubt Microsoft would ever approve XBMC for release on the store, they want you in their walled garden using their video and music services. I'm not sure the devs would even be interested, its a pretty locked down platform.
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They allow Netflix, YouTube, Amazon Prime, etc. So why not the content on my local drive?
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2014-04-04, 10:17
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Because their motto is "BE EVIL".
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Because those services are huge and make the xbox a lot more attractive to customers. XBMC might make the xbox more attractive, but on a much much smaller scale. XBMC wouldn't pull in enough people for Microsoft to want to take the risk.
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Oh man, I totally forgot that Microsoft expects people to buy Live just to watch Netflix. Crazy retarded. Even if they came to us and said "We want XBMC on the xbox one, and we'll give the XBMC Foundation a million dollars, but it has to require people to sign into xbox Live", personally, I would tell them to go jump off a cliff.
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2014-04-05, 11:41
(This post was last modified: 2014-04-05, 11:44 by JustinBeaird.)
you know Microsoft what they mean by "universal apps" is probably just some sort of html/css/javascrit toolkit to allow news websites or simple apps, to quickly build web based apps. they are becoming worse than apple, no way they are going to give us hardware/software access
and even if they do it will probably cost thousands for a dev kit
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That's not accurate at all. You can develop full fledged apps with the new universal model.
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Yes but universal app support on xbox must get approval from Microsoft. They could easily say no, for example xbmc's plugin system is bit of a wild west zone.
Also plex is typically just an interface to the native media player on whatever device it's running on while the server transcodes content to make it compatible with native player, thats how plex has gotten on so many closed devices and how they got xbox one approval. All they have to do is cook up a plex interface to the xbox media player, it's not like xbmc which replaces the whole thing with it's own internal codecs and media decoding.