2013-04-23, 14:21
With amazon dead and the ability to watch netflix looking imperilled, xbmc has lost some significant usefulness in the last couple weeks. XBMC and its addons are wonderful, and I'll continue to use them, but these twin whacks are the kind of thing that can kill projects.
I'm not sure what the long-term solution might be. We all seem to be increasingly entrapped by these very closed, corporate-based services that we feel we need. And as long as that trend continues the irrational or at least arbitrary changes to their services and compatibility will be constant.
In the short-term, I don't grasp the technical reasons that prevent an xbmc addon from working with these services but allow me to use them in a linux browser window.
I'm not sure what the long-term solution might be. We all seem to be increasingly entrapped by these very closed, corporate-based services that we feel we need. And as long as that trend continues the irrational or at least arbitrary changes to their services and compatibility will be constant.
In the short-term, I don't grasp the technical reasons that prevent an xbmc addon from working with these services but allow me to use them in a linux browser window.