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They 100% would "build their own browser" in the form of custom apps. Hell they already do on just about every platform except desktop...
by Klathmon 11y ago
They 100% would "build their own browser" in the form of custom apps.
Hell they already do on just about every platform except desktop...
- cpeterso 11y agoNetflix already has their own Windows desktop app: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/netflix/9wzdncrfj3tj https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/apps/netflix/9wzdncrfj...
- wmf 11y agoSo why corrupt the Web? Why not just tell people to install the app?
- scholia 11y agoFirst, the app only works on Windows 8/8.1/10 and a lot of people are still running earlier versions of Windows. Second, many of the people running Windows 8/8.1/10 know so little about apps that they're "against" them.
- stcredzero 11y agoFirst, the app only works on Windows 8/8.1/10 and a lot of people are still running earlier versions of Windows. Why not port it to Windows 7?
- scholia 11y agoWindows 7 doesn't provide the Windows Runtime infrastructure to support sandboxed, remotely-maintained, universal apps. They'd have to write a new desktop program, and that's pretty unlikely.
- Grishnakh 11y agoMaybe, but Netflix isn't some little 2-bit company, they're huge and definitely have the resources to build a new program. Now obviously, building a new desktop program to support a dying OS might not make that much sense, but if the customers demand it, Netflix can do it.
- scholia 11y agoThey don't need to build a desktop program for Windows 7 when they can show video in a browser. The advantage of building a Universal app using Windows Runtime is that it will run on Windows 8/8.1/10, Xbox One and Windows Phone. That's more than half a billion users....
- Endy 11y agoEven understanding them doesn't make you necessarily 'for' them!
- scholia 11y agoReally? Why not?