The BBC has announced that it will provide a Mac version of its iPlayer video application, reversing an earlier decision to deny users of Apple computers access to its vast archive of video and audio recordings.
During a speech to the MipTV conference in Cannes, Ashley Highfield, the corporation's director of Future Media and Technology, said that he wants to make iPlayer 'as widely available as possible'.
'Although [Apple's] proprietary and closed framework for digital rights management gives us headaches, it is one of our top priorities to re-engineer our proposed BBC iPlayer service to work on Macs,' he said.
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