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Originally Posted by Henrycat
From a recent email to my "contact" on Irex:
"Developing applications and software: There are two ways:
- Developing using software tools, which is relatively difficult, and you'll need iRex intervention to make some types of software work, in some way. (please remember the device will handle encrypred content, and it will (should) not be possible to gain access to some parts of the code..)
- Developing using hardware tools. This way software can be implemented directly, but is only allowed to parties that are subject to the secrecy agreement and are trusted not to abuse the DRM"
I'm not a programmer so i'm not certain if this are all bad aspects :P
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Developers, if they want to make a program, do not went relatively difficult steps to get a program on the device. They certainly do not want to have to go through iRex to get a program working on it. This will kill any developer interest immediately. No developer needs to have access to the DRM libraries or anything alike. Developers simply want to get their own programs onto the device with access to the various subsystems. Screen, network and all.