Netflix is in streaming video what Spotify is in streaming music, and if the latter is making headlines lately due to its dispute with Apple, the former seems to want to follow the same path and is gradually taking steps in this regard. The last one: remove AirPlay from your iOS app options.
Without prior notice and claiming "technical reasons" The streaming giant has decided to withdraw this option from AirPlay, a way to send what is played on our iPhone or iPad to an Apple TV or compatible televisions using our home WiFi connectivity. A new open front for Apple?
Netflix and Spotify share a similar story: two tech giants that dominate the market and have seen another giant want to take part of the pie. Spotify has spent years fighting hand in hand with Apple for the dominance of music streaming, still ahead of Apple globally but with markets in which it has already lost the first place, such as the United States. Netflix must see its hegemonic position threatened by the new Apple TV and Apple TV + service that will be launched in the last quarter of the year, with alliances like HBO, Starz and Apple's own productions in the catalog.
Spotify has a fight in court with Apple over the commissions charged by the company on purchases made through its application for iOS, in addition to other covert struggles such as the refusal to launch an app for Apple TV, or the delay in launch an app for watchOS. Apple for its part uses its weapons, such as not allowing integration into Siri or the HomePod. Netflix has already withdrawn the option to purchase subscriptions within its app for iOS for the commissions charged by Apple, he expressed his refusal to join the TV app launched months ago, and he has also expressed his refusal to enter the Apple TV platform. Now his latest move has been to remove the AirPlay option in his applications.
The technical reasons that Netflix mentions are unknown, because there is really nothing to prevent you from sending your content from an iPhone or iPad to an Apple TV. If we add to this the new televisions with integrated AirPlay that are coming to the market and the recent announcement of Apple's entry into the video streaming market, It seems that everything points to a Netflix strategy very similar to the one Spotify has been carrying out for years. In the end, the losers are the users who see an option like AirPlay disappear without explanation. It is true that there is an app for all platforms and practically all TV brands, but what does not make sense simply does not.
It had been a long time without comment, but this required a LOT
, Netflix did not remove the AirPlay service, IT WAS the same Apple that blocked the app tools to provide this option, and all this in order to OBVIOUSLY open the field to its line of services for a more homogeneous market of apple products, It would be a complete STUPID to disable this option as a "trade war" plan, damaging your image, customer experience and end consumer without getting anything in return, which is a post, they do not even investigate a minimum and they already blame Netflix, But what assholes, you need to be late to believe that it was they and not Apple who made this move to subtract functionality from the competition, but well I hope and they fire you
You should read the Netflix note, because you are so wrong.
It still works for me correctly with version 11.27.2 (69) of Netflix