In a strange twist on this, Netflix hasn’t been relevant in our house since we started saving progressively more money by cancelling our subscription a year ago. 🤓🤓
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Netflix Not Developing App for Vision Pro Because Headset is 'Subscale' and 'Not Relevant' to Subscribers
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Disney has a special relationship with Apple through Pixar.
Also, Disney CEO Bob Iger was on the Board of Directors of Apple from 2011–2019.
No need. Netflix will put themselves out of business. Apple is preparing for the future with Vision Pro.
How long Netflix think they can continue to increase prices while not improving their service and content. They pump out so many shows and movies but the majority of them is just mediocre at best.
If they won’t make the iPad app available this only means they plan on coming out with their own headset.
You’ve used it already? Amazing! 😂
It’s a fair point…until you add in that they proactively opted out of allowing their iPad app to be used. Meh, whatever, I’ll be watching the other relevant streaming services anyway.
Fascinating insight, thanks for sharing.
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lol I had forgotten about that. Really BigScreen is where is was at IMO, helped me fall in love with the potential of VR+Movies/Pluto etc
I don’t have time to beg. It’s a good opportunity to see what Disney, Paramount and Apple have.
Ongoing costs. Support. It’s much more than checking a box. Netflix would want a native app or nothing. With Apple having no leverage and not offering Netflix any incentive then nothing is the answer for now.
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Apple isn’t and never was looking to profit or even compete off their own streaming. It’s to draw people to their tv app to buy apps like Disney plus.
Why buy Netflix when they can make their money selling streaming services.
Not sure what you mean. The Shield runs Google TV, originally Android TV. It’s probably one of the best implementations of Google TV, with the NVIDIA processor and graphics.
You might be right but I personally believe you're vastly underestimating Apple's long term objectives, which is to gobble up the entire galaxy and resurrect Jobs as an A.I. overlord.
And I'm only half joking...
Yeah it's garbage. It was decent way back when it came out, but it hasn't been updated since like 2019. And even then it was written by John Carmack because he wanted it on Oculus, Netflix didn't (and still doesn't apparently) have any real interest in developing for VR/AR. All this stuff about the AVP being "subscale" is total BS (which is especially made obvious by the fact that they could allow the ipad app to run on the AVP with basically no effort).
people still use Netflix, I stopped using it eight years ago #netflix is dead.
Is anyone surpirsed? Apple has been openly hostile to devs who make its products valuable. And, yeah, the user base for Vision Pro is smaller than a rounding error for any other OS they support. Why would they bother until it's a more proven platform?
Apple doesn’t buy 💩? 🤔
Perhaps not for a custom version of their app, but the iPad is certainly “there”. What is the justification for them going out of their way to block the iPad app on Vision Pro?
This smells more like a commercial negotiating tactic.
I highly doubt that. I think iPad apps will look great on Vision Pro being that the apps are made for the current gen iPads which have a high resolution. It shouldn’t looked stretched or anything like that.