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Netflix App for iOS No Longer Supports AirPlay Because of 'Technical Limitations' [Updated With Netflix Statement]
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Perhaps it’s not so much a technical limitation as a bug. Netflix rolled out an update that broke the app in their efforts to limit the mobile tier from streaming content to a higher bandwidth source. Perhaps the end goal is to restrict mobile tier while allowing higher tier users full access. It’s not like Apple hasn’t had similar issues and taken their time to roll out a fix, sometimes several updates later.
If you believe Netflix is "playing dirty" to attack apple, that is the ecosystem you choose to live in. It is no secret apple is very hostile to app devs that have apps with similar functionality as apples built in apps in iOS.
Their Apple TV app is so user hostile with the auto-playing previews, the aggressive cutting in when the credits are running... I honestly avoid Netflix for the most part when I can, and only go into the app when I know what I'm looking for.
Except such blatant anti-competitive bahavior would draw lawsuits, and government intervention, so no ... that’s not going to happen.
Yeah, and Apple gets a lot of criticism for their stance. Now Netflix should get the same treatment.
As a business traveler, I watch a lot of “tv” with my iPad. It’s not like I’m always traveling to fun places.
not really sure why you would say that. you can still search Netflix titles in the TV app and there is a TVOS Netflix app as well as iOS. plus they don't bar Safari users from the site.
i love that it's by title but I agree that there could be some tweaks to how that works. like there's no way to save a title outside of the whole 'up next'. maybe i want to remember something or get an alert when it comes out but I don't want it on my 'playlist' just yet. also the playback UI for iTunes stuff could use some work. including autoplaying the next episode like every other service does when it's a tv show. and re subscriptions. if I have Prime but a title requires I have a certain sub channel don't like like the show is available to me. show the listing for Prime greyed out with a marker that says "requires X channel subscription via Prime to watch". allow me to save which of the six profiles on my Hulu is mine so it by passes that screen. and so on
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they actually did choose to cancel the marvel stuff. The deal they had for the marvel stuff is separate from the streaming deal for outside Disney content. In fact marvel/Disney can’t use any of the Netflix characters for 2 more years after cancellations
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Almosr every video app on iOS has airplay functions not to mention Apple just made deals bringing airplay 2 to almost every tv manufacturer
I just dug up the original press release on Reddit:
“We don’t like Apple anymore, now that they’re launching a TV service, and we’re going to make it as annoying as possible for their customers to use Netflix. Going forward, we hope they continue to believe our lies about the reason we are crippling their experience.”
“We don’t like Apple anymore, now that they’re launching a TV service, and we’re going to make it as annoying as possible for their customers to use Netflix. Going forward, we hope they continue to believe our lies about the reason we are crippling their experience.”
Same here. And if you have kids, it makes even more sense. Looks like Disney is gonna come in to the game with a thunder. Just hope it doesn't have crazy tiers and hyper premium rates
Multiple after I've been there, purchased an Apple TV for my stay, and then left it there when I was done (purposely, I didn't want to pack them).
Aside from the handful of times I did that there are some hotels that have Apple TV of their own accord too. It's not common but it is out there. I seem to remember one of the chains (not one of the major brands) deciding to add them universally too.
Having Netflix available on Hotel TVs is also very common now but they require your own credential and there's no way I'm entering my username and password on a hotel device.
It’s hard to imagine why a content creator/distributor would go out of its way to make it harder for customers to view its content, even if it isn’t the most common use case. They had to go out of their way to disable airplay when the user mirrors the device from the control center, so it’s clearly intentional.
So “technical limitations” refers to the inability of Netflix’s coders to figure out how to prevent a subset of users from circumventing their artificial “mobile only” restriction?
I suspect you are right.
The additional statement from Netflix doesn't really make sense.
It's not Netflix' job to support a specific TV.
They support the Airplay API and then then Apple or the TV manufacturer ensure they follow the same API.
It's not Netflix' job to support a specific TV.
They support the Airplay API and then then Apple or the TV manufacturer ensure they follow the same API.
A few other use cases I can think of (not sure if they’ve been mentioned).
High end projectors are often nothing more than monitors (no built-in Apps so no Netflix, Hulu or anything). AV receivers can also accept AirPlay.
