Was that supposed to speak to some part of my comment...? It seems like a complete non sequitur to me.
I am WAY too unqualified to understand any of the technical stuff, so I'll be waiting to hear thoughts from experts on this one. It looks like if there are no major flaws in it this is a great thing for the platform overall.
It's not like dedicated people aren't going to be able to just patch out the calls to this API from the apps themselves...This feels like yet another attempt at DRM that is doing more harm than help.
If they were any more inbred, they'd be a sandwich.