The author has chosen to purchase various “formats” and then expecting it work across systems. Just the way you can’t play an Xbox game on PlayStation - the physical format being the same.
VHS and Beta, Blu-ray and HDDVD, etc were battles about the Universal standards. It’s a shame your car has a DVD player, if it had a HDMI port, you damn can play anything you want.
What a useless rant!
I am not defending the DRM bullshit, but this rant is making an analogy to formats and the whole discussion is framed incorrectly.
It bothers me when people title their post with a hook to lure you in but then you’re sorely disappointed that it’s not about what the title said. Click bait.
Edit: DVD burning is a hack to get around the fact that the car doesn’t have an HDMI port.
I believe if the author talked about DRM, we'd have a better discussion than falling back to VHS vs Betamax in a clickbait article.
Apple is Sony here, one company that won't allow interoperability. Just like betamax, it often has superior specifications, but won't let anyone else play in it's walled garden.
Apple might sell more than any other single competitor, but it's still losing the war. The brand is built on "quality costs more", which is great for companies that don't need to interoperate, like watches and knives and even cars... It can't compete on price because it will hurt the brand... So they're stuck making more money than they can spend, while losing the war.
Not a bad place to be in, better than betamax, but their tech will suffer the same fate, unless they open their walled garden.
Apple is already supporting a few TVs with AirPlay and announced support for the Roku.