While initial reviews have touted the iPad as an "iPod Touch on steroids", and with a larger screen, it could make for some great portable movie watching. Many have often wondered if movie rental giant Netflix will release an app for Apple devices, including the new iPad. However, according to their CEO, they're not ready to go that route just yet.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a Wednesday conference call that he isn't in any hurry to expand a streaming service of Netflix to those mobile devices.
Hastings was asked if there was any reasons, be they legal or technological that they couldn't develop a streaming app for the iPod.
"We haven't yet done or submitted an iPhone application. We're optimistic that … it could be approved but there's no way of really knowing in advance what Apple's stance would be on that. Of course, that application, if it works on the iPhone would work on the iPad," he said.
"It's not a huge priority for us because we're so focused on the larger screens. Until we get our TV ubiquity and our Blu-ray ubiquity and were getting close on video game ubiquity, then we would next turn to the small screen. It's just not a primary movie-watching (option). So it's something we will get around to but it's not in the near term."
via Yahoo! News
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adammike
April 22, 2010 at 5:22am
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SpaceTrucker
January 28, 2010 at 9:13pm
Out of the people I know, I don't know of ANY that are considering Netflix when considering their electronics purchases, most are thinking Blu-Ray but, only in the PS3 sense of it all, not for actually purchasing Blu-Ray movies, they are more than content with their Satellite/Cable subscriptions and having a hard time finding money to care about paying more than $1 for a movie, which they get from RedBox once in a while, when they feel they can "splurge". With the economy what it is, it's hard to find anyone who has the money to spend on electronics at this time. The only reason they are at all, is because they lost their rabbit eared TV's last year and now they are looking to go back to it again and dump cable and satellite, and then use AppleTV or their XBOX360's or PS3 to get what ever else they can afford to purchase media wise until they can get past this low point.
bazaarsoft
January 28, 2010 at 10:41am
Getting Netflix streaming onto the big screen is totally the right thing for them to do - much larger market there. In the last 6 months, I know of about 15 people who factored Netflix streaming into their home electronics purchase (including myself). The do need to work on expanding the streaming content though - it's a little sparse IMHO.
