No [current plans for] Netflix for the Playbook. Confirmed.
- Netflix, on twitter, just confirmed no Netflix app for blackberry or playbook. Bummer, I want Netflix and Hulu apps so I can take advantage of the sales on the PB.
https://twitter.com/Netflixhelps/sta...3869208648089602-23-12 09:07 PMLike 0 - I have to say netflix is no loss. The content on netflix is so lame I canceled my subscription after a few months. My wife thought it was a waist of a good $8. The only one who benefitted from netflix in my house was my 4 year old who was watching barney.02-23-12 09:17 PMLike 4
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- That's what I was thinking... I mean, isn't the idea to make your services available to the widest audience possible? If. Don't think RIM could make it much easier for developers to come on-board. I can understand Skype, they don't charge the end users for their services, but Netflix has paying customers that could potentially grow. Especially considering that now they charge you extra when you use multiple different devices.
Someone must be making deals with them to postpone he release of their application on the PlayBook. Or am I missing something here; DRM?KMB4 likes this.02-23-12 09:28 PMLike 1 -
- I couldn't care less....netflix is sh....t anyways....I have it on my TV...subscribed for a month...cancelled less than a week later....nothing useful for me...
but it would disappoint a lot of people who love it I bet you....02-23-12 11:18 PMLike 0 -
Tell them you want it, flood their timeline with nothing but Tweets to it.. they'll either start blocking ppl (bad customer service) or they'll have to at least consider the options. lol
I don't use netflix myself but i think its garbage they wont support the playbook so i joined the cause. everyone else should tooerodenero likes this.02-23-12 11:27 PMLike 1 - Done tweeted them about it. Hopefully they will re-consider.
In the mean time Crackle works just fine. Bad selection right now but it will come in time.02-23-12 11:38 PMLike 0 - That's what I was thinking... I mean, isn't the idea to make your services available to the widest audience possible? If. Don't think RIM could make it much easier for developers to come on-board. I can understand Skype, they don't charge the end users for their services, but Netflix has paying customers that could potentially grow. Especially considering that now they charge you extra when you use multiple different devices.
Someone must be making deals with them to postpone he release of their application on the PlayBook. Or am I missing something here; DRM?
I am sorry to break it to people but the Playbook is not competing with the iPad and Apple is not bribing companies to stay away. There is a good reason why Apple is suing HTC, Motorola, Google, Samsung, etc., but not RIM. All of the above are tied in one way or another to Android, which has Apple's attention sincce it is taking marketshare, whereas RIM is (at best) a footnote on a page. Once again, if the Playbook's full web experience included Silverlight support, there would also be no need for an app in the first place....vrs626 likes this.02-23-12 11:46 PMLike 1 - I have an idea.
Rather than just cancelling accounts over this, what if we all put them on hold until the same date?
They'd stand a better chance of noticing if a number of accounts were held until specific dates continually shared across all account instead of just cancelling the accounts outright.
The billing stops, but they get to see a number of customers with their billing held to synchronized dates. Otherwise how can they get feedback? They've got no way of knowing if someone is leaving just because they think NetFlix sucks or because they've got a PlayBook they're refusing to support.
PlayBook = Avro Arrow02-23-12 11:58 PMLike 2 - I also just phoned in and cancelled my Netflix.The guy told me that since it is a "dying" platform that they have no plans on releasing an app.02-24-12 01:43 AMLike 0
- You are certainly missing something here. Did you even read the communication from Netflix? People really should check the paranoid conspiracy theory stuff at the door and just look at the facts. They made a reasonable business decision based upon their own priorities. It really just says that they don't view the Playbook as having enough of a market sector to make it worth supporting. Reality is when your market share gets lumped in with other that is what you can expect. These are just simple business decisions and a fraction of a percent of subscribers is not something on which to spend money. As a virtual non-player, RIM would need to make worth Netflix's while to put something together. BTW, the same is true for many Android tablet makers. They have access to Netflix because Android (cumulatively) has enough market share, not because the Toshiba Thrive or Acer Iconia has enough market pull on its own.
I am sorry to break it to people but the Playbook is not competing with the iPad and Apple is not bribing companies to stay away. There is a good reason why Apple is suing HTC, Motorola, Google, Samsung, etc., but not RIM. All of the above are tied in one way or another to Android, which has Apple's attention sincce it is taking marketshare, whereas RIM is (at best) a footnote on a page. Once again, if the Playbook's full web experience included Silverlight support, there would also be no need for an app in the first place....
Who Apple is suing really isn't relevant to why Netflix is not on BB devices either, don't know why you threw that in there. If it all comes down to a viable market then RIM sure as s**t has one, I think there is more to the story than install base and staying power.02-24-12 03:32 AMLike 0
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