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The answer is yes. They already fought with Spotify over this. Spotify had to clean up their game quite a bit to pass App Store review. Apple still has plenty o

The answer is yes. They already fought with Spotify over this. Spotify had to clean up their game quite a bit to pass App Store review. Apple still has plenty of leverage. Being the highest grossing app on the platform is a double edged sword - and Netflix needs to be on iOS even more than Apple needs them to. But it's very unlikely that Apple would go so far as to delist Netflix. Apple will just reject the new updates until Netflix submits a version that plays by the rules. If Apple delisted an approved (live) version of any app based on something extra that turned up during review of a newer update, and the change wasn't in the live version, that would be unprecedented as far as I know, and likely an error that would be corrected promptly. And the Netflix user base is so big, there's almost no way that error would be allowed to happen.

dhimes 8y ago
Why can Netflix just use the mobile browser? Are they allowing downloads for offline viewing? If they are only online streaming I see no reason at all to even have an app. Just a mobile web page. Can somebody enlighten me?
- tommymachine 8y ago
  User experience is better in apps
  - dhimes 8y ago
    In my experience it depends on the site and the app. Streaming vids seems like a perfect job for the browser.
    - tommymachine 8y ago
      Agree but overall users seem to prefer apps versus browsers at a ratio of 9 to 1 (in terms of time spent in each medium) .
- wgerard 8y ago
  > Are they allowing downloads for offline viewing? They do for quite a few items in their catalog - probably not even a majority, but quite a few nonetheless.
r00fus 8y ago
I think Spotify needs Apple far more than Netflix does. You don't listen to Spotify (for the most part) on TVs, but Netflix is there. Many fewer folks use Spotify on desktop OSs, it's common for Netflix. Netflix is well positioned to fight Apple over this, and if they call Apple's bluff, Apple will likely be forced to consider.
- tommymachine 8y ago
  There’s no bluff . Sure Netflix could live on without iOS. But what would be the point of giving up 70% of iOS because they couldn’t get the 30%. It’s not even a problem for them . They’ll be able to move it to the browser just fine and keep 100% they just won’t be able to link it from the app . There’s no fight to be had . Apple has a stronger reason for not linking to external websites where users would be asked to put in their credit cards then just to make sure they get their 30% from the netflixes of the world.

dhimes 8y ago

Why can Netflix just use the mobile browser? Are they allowing downloads for offline viewing? If they are only online streaming I see no reason at all to even have an app. Just a mobile web page. Can somebody enlighten me?

tommymachine 8y ago
User experience is better in apps
- dhimes 8y ago
  In my experience it depends on the site and the app. Streaming vids seems like a perfect job for the browser.
  - tommymachine 8y ago
    Agree but overall users seem to prefer apps versus browsers at a ratio of 9 to 1 (in terms of time spent in each medium) .
wgerard 8y ago
> Are they allowing downloads for offline viewing? They do for quite a few items in their catalog - probably not even a majority, but quite a few nonetheless.

r00fus 8y ago

I think Spotify needs Apple far more than Netflix does. You don't listen to Spotify (for the most part) on TVs, but Netflix is there. Many fewer folks use Spotify on desktop OSs, it's common for Netflix. Netflix is well positioned to fight Apple over this, and if they call Apple's bluff, Apple will likely be forced to consider.

tommymachine 8y ago
There’s no bluff . Sure Netflix could live on without iOS. But what would be the point of giving up 70% of iOS because they couldn’t get the 30%. It’s not even a problem for them . They’ll be able to move it to the browser just fine and keep 100% they just won’t be able to link it from the app . There’s no fight to be had . Apple has a stronger reason for not linking to external websites where users would be asked to put in their credit cards then just to make sure they get their 30% from the netflixes of the world.