Netflix Isn't Adding Apple TV Integration After All

[Black Belt]

Jerkoffs. Apparently it works but they want to be jerkoffs

 

[bilbo--baggins]

I’m not going to subscribe to Netflix again unless they do.

 

[throAU]

A “bug” made their app work properly.

Says everything you need to know about how they value their customer experience.

 

[Shop]

You could possibly write an app that accesses the web api and performs the integration for you.

 

[attila]

Raising the prices but not offering more, even if it's proven they already can. Such crap leadership.

 

[OGdrknight]

Well then they need to roll out faster updates and fix the Apple TV app they just updated. It seems like everytime they fix or add anything they break something else. If all else fails, just copy the Android TV version because it works without fail.. Stop using the Apple TV version to experiment with.

 

[harmonthe3rd]

Netflix continues to find ways not to get my money.

 

[parameter]

Has nothing to do with Netflix

Not Netflix's fault for not supporting the standard way for TV apps to integrate with Apple TV?
You are sorely mistaken. It is solely Netflix's doing.

 

[TimFL1]

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.

There is no real profile linking. It goes to the up next queue of the currently active account.

I don‘t know of a single streaming app I use that bothered implementing tvOS profiles support. They all just lazily present you with their own custom in-app profiles picker or use the last selected, if the app was used within a certain timeframe.

Then they all just blast their playback progress to the currently active tvOS user profile, which is 99% of the time my Apple ID. You are supposed to hold the TV symbol button on the remote and then swipe to the profiles section and pick your own account, which is simply a tedious UX that no one but myself bothers using. It‘s not that bad since we‘re only 2 adults in our household, but once the kid is old enough to watch, I fully expect my up next queue to be kid trash content.

 

[SDJim]

Not for the consumer, no. But there are several good reasons for Netflix. Hypothetically, opening the TV app and selecting Netflix content from your watch list jumps right into playback. Netflix would rather you open their app first, be bombarded with their curations/algorithms, and then be able to select content. It grants them the ability to a/b test and improve their recommendations, among other things, to better retain users.

It’s akin to automakers refusing CarPlay/Android Auto, why give up access to precious data for harvest. YMMV, pun intended.

While that IS absolutely true, it just causes me to never watch Netflix anymore because I am served up content from every other provider in my Up Next, with them as the sole holdout. As a result, I almost never watch Netflix, and therefore feel no motivation to stop mooching my subscription and give them some of my own money. You know what platforms I DO give my own money to, because I am directed to their services by the TV app? All of the ones that sync with the Apple TV app. Once my media ends, I am now inside their app and will peruse what is there. You're not wrong, but I don't think Netflix is right.

 

[mike2q]

Knowing how Apple works I'd bet there is a major concession Netflix would have to make if they implemented this feature. I'd further bet that Apple forbids them to publicly talk about it lest they loose their place in the app store.

 

[SDJim]

Knowing how Apple works I'd bet there is a major concession Netflix would have to make if they implemented this feature. I'd further bet that Apple forbids them to publicly talk about it lest they loose their place in the app store.

I don't know that I'd predict that it's anything particularly onerous, given every single other major streaming service is on board.

 

[mike2q]

I don't know that I'd predict that it's anything particularly onerous, given every single other major streaming service is on board.

Netflix is the only streaming service that almost everyone has if they have one at all. That gives them power that other streaming services just don't have. If Apple removed Peacock it wouldn't ruffle many feathers (pun intended) but at least for now removing Netflix could cause people to switch platforms. They are not the same as every single other streaming service.

Let's not forget, the reason platforms like Windows Phone failed is because they didn't have the apps people wanted.

 

[Jamie0003]

There is literally no good reason for this not to be implemented.

I mean, if you’re Netflix there is: money

 

[mcled53]

Netflix is soooo drunk with power for a service with 95% crappy originals.

Do you just love having thousands of undubbed Korean soap operas to watch?

 

[AL2TEACH]

Do you just love having thousands of undubbed Korean soap operas to watch?

Excluding the soaps, I give thanks to Netflix for having the S. Korean horror, action and sci-fi stuff. 🙏.

 

[thefrost]

Oh wow.

 

[AppliedMicro]

Knowing how Apple works I'd bet there is a major concession Netflix would have to make if they implemented this feature. I'd further bet that Apple forbids them to publicly talk about it lest they loose their place in the app store.

Agree.

Except... It's the other way round: It's up to Apple to make a major concession.