They write a native app for Android, but iPhone/iPad gets the crappy web app that tries to pretend it's native stuffed in a UIWebView. I swear that thing has the worst UX experience ever.
Different screens seem to have trouble refreshing, also. The search screen, for example, sometimes won't show search results when you search. Instead, it sends you back to the home screen after searching. You can flip back to the search screen, and your results are there, so it's working, but just in an amusingly buggy manner.
Aside from the obvious UI bugs, the actual core functionality (streaming Netflix) seems pretty solid. I haven't played with it much, and since my phone (G2) doesn't have HDMI out I'm not sure how much I will use it, but it seems to fulfill its core purpose pretty well. It's an amusing toy to have, anyhow.
Funny how netflix constantly sends surveys about picture quality (which is always fine) and their website ui is so clunky and broken.
It's a webapp. It just pretends to be native by being wrapped in a UIWebView and uses AVFoundation to play videos and stuffed gingerly on to the app store.
See this: http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2011/03/sxsw-mistakes-mad...
and this: http://www.slideshare.net/kentbrew/mistakes-i-made-building-...