The BBC has an overblown sense of its own importance. It is rolling out software interfaces. But it is not a software company and so should stop all these silly front-end developments like iPlayer, Radioplayer and Canvas.
The BBC must do what I pay my licence fee for, produce programs.
Other people, commercial organisations, should take care of the distribution.
The current programs, and all the back programs, should be made available as video/audio feeds to any company wishing to make software for viewing on their own platform together with a suitable XML interface for program guides and database search.
For example, the BBC make it difficult and obscure to find the URLs of radio feeds that you can then listen to in your own software (Quicktime, etc). They are here BBC Radio Streams.
The BBC is acting just like the decaying music and publishing industries and believes that controlling the means of distribution is vital to its success, it is not, creativity is what they are there for.
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