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Following the iPad app, Netflix announced an iPhone app for their subscription-based video streaming service at WWDC today. Netflix was pretty forthcoming about working on the iPhone app, and have confirmed that it will be available for free sometime this summer. The iPhone app will include personalized recommendations, and remember where you left off watching on the big screen so you never miss a beat.
Netflix is pretty awesome and all, but not all online video services are quite ready to make the jump to the iPhone just yet. Hulu is currently staying with Flash because of a few necessary bits missing from HTML5, although that could just mean they’ll cook up an app from scratch rather than try to funnel viewers through their site.
Presumably you’ll still need an $8.99/month subscription, but there aren’t any details on the Netflix homepage right now. Stay tuned for more!
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Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
