This “feature” accomplishes nothing of value for anyone, including the streaming services, but imposes a massive (and for most people, confusing and frustrating) hindrance on honest people simply trying to easily capture high-quality (as opposed to, say, using their damn phone to take a photograph of their reflective laptop display) screenshots of the shows and movies they’re watching.
Lmao, the author of this is such a fanboy, that the closest they can bring themselves to criticizing Apple is changing “more sophisticated video pipeline” to “more integrated”.
The words they’re looking for are: less open, more closed, more controlling, more consumer unfriendly, or more patronizing.
John Gruber is an insufferable Apple apologist 100% of time but I thought it was an interesting observation that’s worth sharing.