Nvidia Shield is Android TV. Netflix doesn't build for the Nvidia Shield in the same way that they don't build for every TV model from every manufacturer. They have an SDK that the manufacturers integrate.
It also can install apk packages directly without a store, so there is no barrier to platform adoption
Maybe he had learned a lesson
Both those devices run Android apps without any modification, so it seems like this Mark Gurman may have an agenda with his reporting.
The Vision Pro can run any iPad app by default and Netflix disabled that ability for their app. It's a pretty apt analogy.
They also have a quest app but it is awful and clearly abandoned.
Yeah, people pointing at the Quest app are misguided. If anything it is proof that Netflix should NOT release an app, since they aren't even willing to handle ones already out.
Are we assuming they developed those for free?
isn't that just a differently branded glorified TV and a tablet? That probably took changing ten lines of code or something. Building an app for a VR headset I'd guess is more involved
Both of those devices are Android?
And Vision Pro is iOS where "porting" the app consists of checking a box.