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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (12529)	11/15/2011 11:10:11 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

No, 20 million... LMFAO... too freaking funny...

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (12529)	11/15/2011 11:10:52 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Netflix for Android Tablets Finally Gets Tablet-Friendly User Interface Netflix for Android Tablets Finally Gets Tablet-Friendly User Interface by Quentyn Kennemer on November 15th, 2011 at 9:14 am Great news for all Netflix users with Android Honeycomb tablets! They’ve finally updated their application for tablet users. Starting out, Netflix on tablets was simply a stretched out version of the app for phones. While it worked out OK for streaming videos, searching through the catalog, managing your queue and more were just cumbersome and not enjoyable. Users on tablets can simply head on over to the Android market and find the update starting today. Be sure to do that right away if this is something you’ve been waiting for. [ Netflix]

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (12529)	11/15/2011 11:34:14 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Android smartphone share more than triples iOS in Q3 by Don Reisinger November 15, 2011 7:25 AM PST news.cnet.com If there was ever a period of time that showed Android's dominance over the smartphone space, it was last quarter. During the three-month period ended September 30, 60.5 million Android-based smartphones shipped worldwide, helping the mobile operating system secure 52.5 percent of the space, research firm Gartner revealed today. In just one year, Android has more than doubled its market share, which during the third quarter of 2010, stood at 25.3 percent. Furthermore, smartphone shipments just about tripled this year from the 20.5 million that hit store shelves last year. All that success was detrimental to Apple, Gartner found. Whereas last year, Apple secured 16.6 percent of the smartphone market in the third quarter with 13.5 million shipments, the company's iOS platform was only able to muster 15 percent market share last quarter on 17.3 million iPhones sold. That put Apple's mobile operating system behind Symbian, which secured 16.9 percent of the space during the quarter. "Android benefited from more mass-market offerings, a weaker competitive environment and the lack of exciting new products on alternative operating systems such as Windows Phone 7and RIM," Gartner principal research analyst Robert Cozza said in a statement. "Apple's iOS market share suffered from delayed purchases as consumers waited for the new iPhone." But Apple wasn't alone in suffering a difficult third quarter. RIM saw its market share drop from 15.4 percent last year to 11 percent this year, due to only 12.7 million smartphone shipments during the third quarter. Microsoft's Windows Phone market share slid to 1.5 percent from the 2.7 percent share it secured last year. Even worse for Microsoft, it fell behind Samsung's Bada operating system, which nabbed 2.2 percent of the space in the third quarter. Total mobile device sales Gartner also examined total mobile device sales during the third quarter, and not surprisingly Nokia easily beat out all others, selling 105.4 million handsets during the period to secure 23.9 percent market share. Samsung came on strong to take the second spot with 78.6 million mobile device shipments and 17.8 percent market share. From there, mobile device shipments fell off a cliff. The third-place company, LG, only shipped 21 million mobile devices last quarter, securing 4.8 percent of the market. Apple came in fourth with 17.3 million iPhone shipments and 3.9 percent share. Industrywide, things were looking up in the third quarter. Total worldwide mobile device shipments hit 440.5 million during the period, up from the 417.1 million that hit store shelves during the third quarter of 2010. Total smartphone shipments reached 115.2 million worldwide--much higher than the 81.1 million units that shipped last year.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (12529)	11/15/2011 11:44:36 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Netflix revamps Android tablet app for Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet debut November 15, 2011 \| Tom Cheredar venturebeat.com Netflix has unveiled a brand new interface for its Watch Instantly streaming video service on tablets running Android, the company announced today. The move comes just as Barnes and Noble’s Nook Tablet and Amazon’s Kindle Fire — both Android-powered tablet devices — enter the market for the holiday season. The redesigned interface (shown above) displays twice as many titles on the video browsing screen than the previous iteration. The art work for each movie and/or television series is also much larger than the old version, however, this doesn’t prevent you from navigating through titles any slower. The new interface looks a lot like the one made for the web browser, but it works far better on a touch screen. “In the last 12 months we have seen a threefold increase in how long Netflix members are watching on their tablets,” said Neil Hunt, chief product officer at Netflix. Those viewing habits aren’t just specific to Netflix either. According to comScore tablet viewers are more than twice as likely to finish a video than those watching from a desktop. Also, tablet viewers watched movies 30 percent longer than other mobile devices. Netflix said the new streaming interface will make its way to the iPad in the next few weeks. It’s interesting that the company decided to lead with Android-powered devices instead of the great and mighty iPad, but not surprising. Android devices already have a healthy share of the entire market. With the Nook and Kindle Fire on the way, its pretty obvious for why Netflix chose to concentrate on Android.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (12529)	11/15/2011 11:46:23 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 32692

Netflix Goes Android-First with Tablet App Redesign By Jared Newman, PCWorld Nov 15, 2011 8:30 AM pcworld.com Thanks to the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet, Android tablets are getting a redesigned Netflix app before Apple's iPad. The new Netflix app displays recently watched movies and TV shows as thumbnail video stills instead of simple buttons. Categories, which previously displayed only four selections each on the home page, now appear in rows that users can scroll through. Netflix says the new interface displays twice as many movies and TV shows as before. The overall effect is an app that looks more modern than its predecessor. Netflix's app update is available now on all Android tablets, including Amazon's Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble's Nook Tablet. An update for the iPad will be ready "in the coming weeks," Netflix said in a blog post. For mobile apps, and especially for tablet apps, going Android-first is a rarity. The number of tablet apps in the Android Market is tiny compared with the number of iPad tablet apps, and many popular apps such as Facebook, Twitter and Pandora still haven't been optimized for Android tablets. Even Netflix's Android phone app took nine months longer to arrive than the iPhone version, although that was mainly due to DRM issues. Although Netflix didn't explain why it's bringing the update to Android tablets first, I can make a guess: The company wants to provide a great experience on the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet to compete with Amazon's own streaming video service, especially with so many people buying the Fire sight unseen. If that's the case, the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet may actually be a boon for all Android tablets, prompting developers to stay competitive by optimizing their apps for larger screens. They just needed a top-selling tablet as motivation, and now they've finally got one.