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		debacle on June 18, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netflix Quietly Smothers 3rd Party App Ecosystem From the sounds of it, they want to monetize their data.

nicholassmith on June 18, 2012 [–]

Which is really good, additional revenue streams are an excellent idea. Doing it like this? Less excellent. There's probably much better ways to monetize rather than upending the apple cart and having developers go 'huh, this isn't a great idea'.

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