Comment by ethmarks
3 months ago
But you can still stream video on normal Android devices, no? My Motorola phone supports Disney+. Why did studios object to streaming on Fire tablets unless it had kernel DRM but they're fine with streaming on easily-rootable phones?
Not at that time, no - this was several years before Google decided to ship Widevine in Android
FWIW rooting the phone is not enough to get you the widevine keys.
Also some services will just downgrade you to a lower quality stream if your device doesn’t have the appropriate keys.