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"It's one less reason for me to believe that they're going to want to get in bed with Netflix," Amobi said. "It's not inconceivable one of them, maybe the smaller operators could, but it would be surprising."Time Warner Cable and Cablevision declined to comment for this article, while Comcast didn't respond to an e-mail seeking a response. DirecTV referred to statements that its chairman and CEO, Michael White, made last week that the company would continue to strengthen its OnDemand offering and didn't anticipate pursuing a broad-based, generalist product like a Hulu or Netflix. Cox Communications declined to comment or speculate about potential partnerships but noted that the company launched a new DVR that is also an IP gateway, which could pull in third-party Internet content in the future and that it views Netflix more like a premium channel, a complementary service.

The psychological factorGreg Ireland, an analyst for IDC, said he believes pay TV's history with Netflix in the US may be what neko ramen iphone case keeps the two sides from every closing their divide, even if it could at this point work in their own best interests, "I don't think Netflix has ever been combative to cable, the company has always talked about this complementary nature," he said, "But pay TV is on the defense."If the operators can come to terms with thinking about Netflix as complementary rather than competitive, it can add a service that makes its subscribers more like to stick around, Pay TV has access to new transactional video-on-demand that Netlfix does not, and access to all the current season television that Netflix does not, Meanwhile, Netflix has access to content that cable and satellite companies don't, Combining the two creates stickiness for a customer, he said, "I think that it's just having to come to terms with Netflix as complementary," Ireland said..

"In reality, Netflix largely is, but psychologically they're not ready to accept that.". analysis Netflix has an open invitation for US cable companies to combine its streaming television service as part of pay-TV offerings, but experts say the headway Netflix has made abroad will be hard to replicate here. Netflix says it has had a standing invitation to US pay-television providers to join forces, but so far nobody has shown up for the party. Despite the benefits to US consumers that would arise from directly linking the top online-video service in the country to the way vast swaths of people watch television on the biggest screen in their house, experts say pay-TV providers here are most likely to keep Netflix at arm's length.

It's accelerating too, having added 50 million users in the last four months, Samsung puts that down to its multi-platform availability: "The service provides a seamless experience where users can access ChatON through PCs, Samsung feature phones, and all the major smart phone operating systems: Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone," it boasts, That compares with around 75 million users on BBM, which is due to join ChatON on Android any time soon, possibly leading to a resurgence for the BlackBerry app, Over 100 million people, mainly in Japan and the Far East, use Line, The big daddy neko ramen iphone case in messaging is WhatsApp, however, with roughly 300 million users..

It's not quite comparing like with like, however. Those are the big numbers that each service likes to boast about, but some, such as BBM and WhatsApp, count daily users, whereas ChatON is measuring registered users. It doesn't say how many use it every day. ChatON comes preinstalled in the majority of Samsung's phones, both its mid- and high-end Galaxy Android phones and its cheap-as-chips Bada phones. It's not compulsory to sign up and use it though, so it's impressive that 100 million people have given it a go at least once.