Why there’s still no Netflix app for Android - Fragmentation

I think it would be more accurate to say that there's no Netflix app because the movie studios want DRM features and Android doesn't provide them directly.

<i>That said, the process of dealing with each Android handset on a case by case basis is a lot more arduous and time consuming than developing the app for platforms like iOS and Windows Phone 7.</i><p>I have to wonder if that has something to do with why the Angry Birds update is so broken. It works fine on my HTC Incredible, but it is now completely unusable by my wife and one of our friends.

That's not fragmentation, that's lack of a particular feature.

No the problem isn't fragmentation but that Netflix insisted on using features that weren't part of the API -- which would get you banned on the iOS and properly on Win7 as well.

I was under the impression that Netflix DRM relied only on a Silverlight component anyway. Is this not correct? How do they depend on the OS to provide this functionality?<p>Does the Wii also provide such functionality? Netflix is on a lot of devices these days so it's hard to swallow the idea that lack of OS-level DRM is keeping it off. In fact, if I remember correctly, Netflix is available on TiVO and Boxee, both of which are Linux platforms, and Linux definitely doesn't have a baked-in DRM facility and I would be highly skeptical that there is a private implementation of OS-level DRM on both Boxee and TiVO that hasn't hit the masses. So it's almost definitely just an excuse.