Netflix's app is the opposite of how Gruber describes a great app: "...it should seem, when you’re using it, that the entire device was meant for it. E.g., a go

Netflix's app is the opposite of how Gruber describes a great app: "...it should seem, when you’re using it, that the entire device was meant for it. E.g., a good chess game for the iPhone should make the iPhone itself feel like a chess playing device." [1] The Netflix app feels painfully like using a computer, not a movie-finding-and-watching device. IMO, that's why HTML is the wrong choice, at least for iOS. [1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/03/tablets http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/03/tablets