Consumers are practically begging for a Netflix app on the iPhone at this point, as one frustrated developer went ahead and hacked about the iPad version until it was iPhone compatible. After tinkering with the Netflix app and the iPad mediaplayer frameworks, he made a suitable version that really wasn’t too difficult to implement. In fact, Netflix seemed to have been preparing for an iPhone debut, as it was already bundled in (it just needed some tweaking to activate). Modmyi.com does a fantastic job of covering both the app was ‘unlocked’ and how we could install the version for ourselves, but it seems big brother didn’t appreciate such silly antics. With a simple press of the panic button, the iPhone implementation discovered in the iPad version has been squashed (erm, disabled) into oblivion. Whether this was an Apple or Netflix call, we don’t know, but it’s interesting that the original function was there. Perhaps AT&T wouldn’t appreciate movies streaming through their 3G network. Click past the break for screenshots courtesy of ModMyi.
[via ModMyi]
