Netflix spokesperson MoMo Zhou has informed The Verge that this morning’s window the place Netflix appeared as a “collaborating” service in Apple TV — together with non permanent assist for the watchlist and “proceed watching” options — was an error and has now been rolled again. That’s a disgrace. The jubilation in our feedback on the unique story was palpable.
Netflix has by no means gotten on board with Apple’s makes an attempt to mixture content material from quite a few streaming providers, and it has additionally refused to take part in related efforts from different corporations like Google. So it was a shock when it appeared like Netflix had modified its tune out of nowhere with none press launch or official announcement from both aspect. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman stated he’d heard it was a bug of some sort earlier on Friday.
Sadly, not less than for now, Netflix’s stance on all this stays the identical. The corporate nonetheless very a lot desires everybody to browse and devour its content material from throughout the Netflix app. Maybe there’s still hope for Netflix to alter its thoughts, however that day shouldn’t be as we speak. At the least we now understand how simply it may very well be completed, I suppose.