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BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Reaction


Richard Allan suggests that Anthony Rose's post about BBCiPlayer on the iPhone fulfills the BBC's public purpose to "promote education".

I'm not sure I'd go that far, but it's clear that readers of this blog have an appetite for "behind the scenes" material and I'll do my best to try and get you more. Thanks for the positive response both in the comments and elsewhere.

However Webometric Thoughts wonders if the BBC has fallen for Apple's hype. Rory Cellan Jones clearly hasn't.

Regarding Cory Doctorow's post on Boing Boing: "BBC Drops DRM From iPlayer Video On Demand Service ". I've posted a brief comment here and hope to have a fuller response from Anthony in the next couple of days.

Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet Blog.

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  • At 2:54 PM on 12 Mar 2008,
  • Tes wrote:

It's nice how you totally FAILED to mention the negative responses about the way the iPlayer has been handled up to this point. There are more than a few comments about the BBC's little love in with the iPhone at the expense of more widely avaliable products. Do the BBC have some vested intrest in Apple or O2?

What are the real technical limitations stopping a Symbian, Windows Mobile or Blackberry version of the iPlayer?

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