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Netflix Isn't Adding Apple TV Integration After All
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No different than Apple’s refusal to offer iMessage on Android.
Serious question to AppleTV app users:
When it shows you what is “next” for other providers, what does it show when your household has multiple users on each provider? Same account, but multiple users. Example: I don’t need to see my wife or son’s next up for viewing on Max, only mine. Or do you have to somehow “link” each user identity for each service to separate AppleTV identities?
As it stands now, I don’t enjoy watching movies or TV shows on small screens, so I only use apps on my TV and that works fine. Haven’t felt like I needed an “aggregator” as such. We tried ATV+ but it didn’t really click in my home.
When it shows you what is “next” for other providers, what does it show when your household has multiple users on each provider? Same account, but multiple users. Example: I don’t need to see my wife or son’s next up for viewing on Max, only mine. Or do you have to somehow “link” each user identity for each service to separate AppleTV identities?
As it stands now, I don’t enjoy watching movies or TV shows on small screens, so I only use apps on my TV and that works fine. Haven’t felt like I needed an “aggregator” as such. We tried ATV+ but it didn’t really click in my home.
Profiles are available and in my opinion horribly integrated on Apple TV. The kids watch ridiculous Disney+ content and I have to clear it from the watch next list again, and again, and again.
The Up Next and Continue Watching screens are not as good as they could be, but it really is annoying that my other content shows up there and not Netflix. It actually makes me go to Netflix less, which makes it easier for me to cancel Netflix for months at a time before going back to check out a show I missed.
Thanks for the reply. I would hate to have to sort through suggestions from multiple users when I just want to catch up on my own viewing, as you described. I know that most other streaming apps allow you to have multiple users on one account, and track viewing and provide suggestions for each independently. And each additional user profile is a “soft” profile with no email address or PII required, which is especially nice when you set up a profile for children. If aggregating this is not facilitated by AppleTV app, sounds like it is of limited value to anyone outside of a single user situation.
Full agreement! The biggest Netflix issue is its random sorting of content. Even if play 5 minutes of content, so it should bring those saved starting points, they can be randomized next time you navigate. Such a huge waste of time finding stuff for the current app.
Are you talking about the Netflix app? Anything I play partially (even a short bit) shows up in my “Continue Watching” and is sorted by reverse chrono order (the last thing I played is first). This is on my TV’s Netflix app. For all I know it’s different on other versions of their app, though.
Yes each time I close the app and have 4 things located and played a bit not added to my list. It works that way after using Amazon, Disney. Perhaps they have some minimum played time rule for it to work better?
No. They're acting in their interest.
Exactly. 👍
As it should be: Their app - their decision what it supports.
Fully agree. 🫡
They wrote the app. So it is - and should be - entirely within their control what features it supports.
Why should Netflix, one of the world's most popular streaming services, give up their IP for free - only to prop up a competitor's service and streaming box?
But no, it does not have "everything" to do with Netflix.
👉 If Apple want that integration in their Apple TV software, they're free to pay Netflix for it (and their development). Or come to the negotiating table and conclude a mutually beneficial business agreement.
And boy, can I think of a feature that Apple could offer to them in exchange!
Or should I say "contractual right" or "exemption" from certain business terms. Which would be beneficial to both Netflix and customers. Cause' you know, there are certain other (and very basic) missing features and integrations in Netflix' app for Apple devices.
It's a sad state of affairs when a bug is the most exciting news for Apple TV and Netflix in years.
Earlier today, some Netflix users in the United States began seeing Netflix content in the Apple TV app's Continue Watching queue, which prompted speculation that Netflix was rolling out Apple TV integration.
As it turns out, Netflix content showing up in new places in the Apple TV interface was a bug, and Netflix is not introducing expanded Apple TV functionality. In a statement to The Verge, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed that temporary support for the Continue Watching feature was an error, and it has been rolled back.
Netflix is one of the only major streaming services that has refused to offer integration with the Apple TV app, preferring instead for customers to manage watch lists and browse for content directly in the Netflix app.
Netflix has never supported integration with the built-in content tracking feature in the Apple TV app, so Apple TV users are not able to see Netflix shows and movies in their watchlists. Content from Apple TV+, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Amazon Prime Video, and other services can be tracked with the Apple TV app across Apple devices, but that is not the case for Netflix.
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My point was simply that it’s Netflix’s decision, contrary to the other poster who was claiming it didn’t have anything to do with Netflix - it was somehow an Apple bug (in their Android Apple TV app) that suddenly made Netflix’s tvOS app better for Netflix’s customers who prefer to watch Netflix on an Apple TV.
As you well know, I’m generally in favor of companies doing whatever they want to do 🤣. If Netflix wants their customers to have a suboptimal experience on AppleTV, that’s their choice to make. It literally doesn’t matter to me; I’m not a Netflix customer. Enabling that feature would certainly make me consider resubscribing, but in all honesty it’d be extremely unlikely I sign up again. So they shouldn’t listen to me.
It is a shame that Netflix is not doing the integration with the TV app. They really should.
Earlier today, some Netflix users in the United States began seeing Netflix content in the Apple TV app's Continue Watching queue, which prompted speculation that Netflix was rolling out Apple TV integration.
As it turns out, Netflix content showing up in new places in the Apple TV interface was a bug, and Netflix is not introducing expanded Apple TV functionality. In a statement to The Verge, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed that temporary support for the Continue Watching feature was an error, and it has been rolled back.
Netflix is one of the only major streaming services that has refused to offer integration with the Apple TV app, preferring instead for customers to manage watch lists and browse for content directly in the Netflix app.
Netflix has never supported integration with the built-in content tracking feature in the Apple TV app, so Apple TV users are not able to see Netflix shows and movies in their watchlists. Content from Apple TV+, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Amazon Prime Video, and other services can be tracked with the Apple TV app across Apple devices, but that is not the case for Netflix.
Article Link: Netflix Isn't Adding Apple TV Integration After All
Netflix: “We committed the error of giving people a better product, and for that we are sorry. We have now corrected the mistake, and customers should rest assured we will continue on our mission of keeping our products bad. The mistake of improving user experience will not happen again at Netflix.
Also we increased the price for the 12th time”
Also we increased the price for the 12th time”
Oh. Well ...
Shoot
I guess we can go back to piling on Netflix, calling them names and talking about how "we are cancelling!"
Cancelling "again", that is
Na, after cancelling because of Cuties, I never turned it back on. Found out life was more enjoyable without Netflix.
I cancelled several years ago. Have yet to find anything on there worth paying for.Oh. Well ...
Shoot
I guess we can go back to piling on Netflix, calling them names and talking about how "we are cancelling!"
Cancelling "again", that is
Prices are stupid in Japan.
Oh. Well ...
Shoot
I guess we can go back to piling on Netflix, calling them names and talking about how "we are cancelling!"
Cancelling "again", that is
Would have given me a reason to consider resubscribing …
Oh well.
There’ll probably be enough to reup for a month and binge by June maybe..
Neither does Netflix make streaming boxes.
But you were aware that Apple makes Android applications, weren’t you?
What I meant to say is - Apple is under no obligation to make their software available on other platforms if it doesn’t suit their interests. It’s a similar sentiment to what you expressed. Each is doing what (they believe) is best for them. And from what I see - it doesn’t seem to have hurt Netflix in the least.
I lived through half a decade of office not being available for the iPad. It is what it is.
Same as for Netflix providing integration with the Apple TV app.
iMessage is an instant messenging app that is supposed to provide communication between people.
And yet, Apple remain exclusionary by not providing it for the most used mobile operating system on the planet.
And being the only holdout at that - every other popular messenger service supports both platforms.
Which was the point @ifxf made above: no less “ridiculous and petty” than Apple refusing to provide iMessage for Android.
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To put it in perspective, last fall Netflix ended their dedicated Windows app and replaced it with a webpage wrapper. No more offline viewing, price increased.
There is actually an inverse correlation between Netflix’s price an feature set unless you count those web games that clog up the home page as features.
There is actually an inverse correlation between Netflix’s price an feature set unless you count those web games that clog up the home page as features.
Disagree. Netflix isn’t trying to sell on OS or hardware like Apple is in you oranges to apples comparison.