And if Hulu decides to define the iPad as a mobile device, it would also need its content owners to grant it mobile rights, which it doesn’t actually have. [All Things D]
This sort of nonsense gets to the bottom of what’s wrong with these entertainment executives’ outlook on the world. They want to define everything by arbitrary device types — this is a “TV”, that is a “computer”, this other thing is a “mobile device” — and then sell/distribute the same content to different device types separately and with no spillage. But it’s all bullshit in the digital world. It’s all just ones and zeroes and pixels. [Daring Fireball]
It’s not just the media people, though. Remember Delicious Library for the iPhone, wherein Amazon changed the terms of their API to disallow use of it on “mobile devices,” thus requiring Shipley to gank the app from the store and scuttle several months worth of work? We ran into a similar problem with AccuWeather as well.
I’d like one of these people to explain to me, with a straight face, why an iPhone or iPad is a “mobile device” and my laptop computer isn’t.
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