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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by marcus_holmes on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:41AM (#23220709)
Totally agree. But the DRM monster rears its head. Everyone is afraid you'll steal their choons if you're allowed to play them on whatever player you like sigh
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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by fxtentacle on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:39AM (#23221102)
Still, all iTunes content can be de-DRM-ed in 500 lines of C code, so it's not like "the industry" actually requires it to be secure.

Like everything these days, it's barely good enough. And why bother implementing your DRM as a 1KB C++ library when you can use a 5MB Objective C framework instead?

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