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I think its more that Apple is trying to move everything to web/cloud-based solutions, and have largely done away with optical drives entirely in their latest machines. They would like all software to come from the App store, all entertainment to come through iTunes, etc. And while this does offer major advantages, to both Apple and the end user, I think they are a bit premature in abandoning optical drives. I mean, its very very rare that I need to put a disk in my Mac, but the few times a year that I need to, I'm glad to have a machine that still has that option. Playback of protected Blu-ray discs can be a hot mess with all the different copy protection schemes in play and the licensing for all of them is over and above anything going to Sony. There's HDCP which nominally requires HDCP compliant displays so that means extra licensed hardware and licensing fees going to Intel.
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Next there's the Advanced Access Content System with licensing fees. Then you have BD+ which has licensing fees and requires hardware to implement and finally there's BD Mark which requires licensed hardware to put the mark on a disc but I don't think anything special is required to read a marked disc.
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All of the schemes other than BD Mark have the ability to revoke encryption keys making commercial discs unplayable until the player is updated with new keys. For a software player it's just an update.
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For standalone players that means a firmware update. Put it all together and the long term cost of supporting Blu-ray playback in an OS becomes a pretty expensive proposition not to mention a vendor can be blacklisted if their hardware/software isn't secure enough and decryption keys can be extracted from their implementation. WinDVD wasn't blacklisted but several keys for the Advanced Access Content System were extracted from it because the player protection was so weak.