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Why There's Still No Netflix App For Android

Posted by timothy on from the wouldn't-exactly-say-I-was-missing-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Why is there a Netflix app for iOS devices and Windows Phone 7, yet no Netflix support for Android? Well, Netflix has been working on an Android app but has run into a few technical hurdles because Android lacks a universal DRM solution which means that the company has to work with different handset manufacturers separately in order to ensure that the installed DRM protocol meets the requirements laid out by the movie studios."

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  1. Re:PlayReady DRM by fbartho · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Android CPUs are pretty slow. I bet that + the rest of the platform's immaturity is what's hanging them up. Sure *technically* you can write your code in c/c++ but you end up having to personally import every damn library from the STL up.

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  2. Re:Ubuntu instead! by Yvan256 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Windows XP in a VM is really your only option? You don't have a PS3, a Wii, an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or the new Apple TV?