{"id":8030,"date":"2010-11-12T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8030"},"modified":"2018-08-01T18:03:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T18:03:50","slug":"android-not-ready-for-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/android-not-ready-for-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"Android Not Ready for Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9859\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9859\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9859 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/NetflixAndroid-S-e1428644180847.jpg\" alt=\"Not yet.\" width=\"390\" height=\"215\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9859\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not yet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NOV. 12, 2010 \u2022 Citing a lack of a generic or complete platform security and content protection mechanism available for Google&#8217;s Android mobile phone system, Netflix disclosed it had no immediate plans to stream video content to all Android phones as it has with the iPhone or Windows Phone 7.\u00a0 Netflix instead will work with the individual hardware manufacturers to to craft DRM solutions that will permit secure content streaming.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: Internet analysts recently estimated 20% of U.S. prime time traffic was due to Netflix online streaming of video content.\u00a0 With all the major game consoles able to stream Netflix content, it seems the only major growth limit Netflix faces is the rollout of broadband.\u00a0 That and the upcoming renegotiation of the existing low-low cost contract giving Netflix access to movies to stream. On the mobile front, the hardware uniformity behind iOS devises makes security less of a challenge but already Windows 7 Phones are available from multiple manufacturers such as LG, Dell, HTC and Samsung, somewhat negating that point. The issue for Netflix is the massive growth of the Android phone installed base.\u00a0 On Dec 9 Google\u2019s Android VP of Engineering, Andy Rubin, revealed that 300,000 Android phones are being activated daily.\u00a0 With their generally lower price points compared to Apple\u2019s iPhones and popularity with younger media consumers, this is a market Netflix could use to maintain its pace of growth.\u00a0 We view the Netflix issue as a potential warning sign of game piracy issues on the Android, something iOS devices have not been immune to.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOV. 12, 2010 \u2022 Citing a lack of a generic or complete platform security and content protection mechanism available for Google&#8217;s Android mobile phone system, Netflix disclosed it had no immediate plans to stream video content to all Android phones as it has with the iPhone or Windows Phone 7.\u00a0 Netflix instead will work with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[367,40,78],"tags":[265,389,83,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8030"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13835,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8030\/revisions\/13835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}