Monday, January 31, 2011

Is iPad Driving Netflix?

One might be tempted to note the quick rise of streaming on Netflix and assume people have suddenly decided to watch TV on their PCs, or have quickly gotten the hang of configuring "net TV" boxes.

There's some truth to those notions, but a more-obvious guess is that many of those tablet devices are now being used to watch Netflix. In that sense, Netflix could be one of the most-successful app store subscription products yet seen.

1 comment:

Martin said...

I watch Netflix on the iPad but it's the PS3 that really sold me. Netflix can stream the same content to every screen I own - I wouldn't be interested if I were forced to watch movies on a small screen when I'm sitting in front of a big one.

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