>>Shows the fragmentation problem in Android with Netflix:
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http://m.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/netflix-android-phone/#0_undefined,0_We can expect more of this as Android cements its dominance. WP7 snapping at Android's heels would allow Netflix to publicize the difficulty, to pressurize Google to publish a consistent streaming API or risk losing ground to contemporaries who can trumpet their superiority. Instead, Google itself has entered the movie rental business via Android Market and Netflix must come up with its own expensive solution or miss out.
None of us should expect any different- every time we allow a corporate to dominate, this is what they will do.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
