Let's translate his words because I think they have been misunderstood...
Blu-ray has come with issues unrelated to the actual quality of the movie that make [it] a complex and not-great technology...So for a whole plethora of reasons, it makes a lot of sense to get rid of optical discs in desktops and notebooks
Blu-ray doesn't give "us" any percentage (unless we re-create it somehow, just like we are trying to do with that "innovative", "tremendous", "amazing", [insert_advocating_word_here] PassBook we've "invented"); that's why it makes sense to get rid of optical discs in every device we "own" (because we will "own" all of them... wait for it).
His preferred Blu-ray alternative? iTunes, of course, which lets you buy a movie and then watch it on all your Apple devices.
Captain obvious to the rescue! How would he mention Google Play or Amazon...
Note the language: "lets" and "buy", as if they were doing a favour to human kind...
Once upon a time, people assumed that Macs' lack of Blu-ray was a delay, not a permanent decision to fast-forward past it. I told Schiller that I imagined folks don't ask about it much these days. "Correct," he said.
Wrong. He says that people say which very different from what people really say (as usual with Apple... they are always "thinking" for you, just in case your brain is unable of doing some synapse).
Anyhow, Apple doesn't want anything that might threaten its throne of entertainment (because that what Apple has become since the iPod) and it will "conclude" with a locked computer where you will only be able to use applications that you "buy" on the AppStore because they "let" you, and play movies and music that you also "buy" on iTunes because they also "let" you.
And of course, you will "buy" a locked and overpriced machine that you cannot upgrade because they think that they have to "let" you rebuy it every year or so as they think for you when it gets old...