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Give the app any time at all to update, however, and it promptly updates where I’m at in a given show.

If I have Netflix open on two Android devices simultaneously and I watch content on one and not the other, the second device will still think I’m back at the old bookmark. Not only does each remember which content I’m watching, Netflix keeps a close eye on the situation. I’ve used Netflix across two Android devices, an iOS device, and a PC simultaneously. The problem with this answer is that while Biddle notes that there was a great deal of complexity to manage between multiple devices, these problems have been solved. Netflix already has sophisticated caching systems and distribution servers. It could certainly be tweaked to allow for offline play on multiple devices. Our focus was to make it fast and easy to play movies on a PC/laptop with good quality streams, and to build out the movie catalog as quickly as possible.” A 2012 StackExchange question on the topic answered by Gibson Biddle, a product manager at Netflix, notes that “We chose to focus on the 95% use case where customers watch movies when they have network access and not to focus on the 5% case of airplane use or watching movies in the backseat of your car. This is a common theme that the company has maintained throughout the years. The problem with offering downloadable content, according to Edwards, is that it represents a “short-term fix for a bigger problem,” where that problem is WiFi quality and access. According to the company’s director of corporate communications, Cliff Edwards, that’s never going to change. The one hole in Netflix? No offline caching or playback of any sort, period. It's also helpful if you have a bad connection and want to watch a show without it hiccuping through the best parts.Netflix is a titan of the modern video-on-demand market between its DVD rental and online streaming service, the company has a market share that dwarfs Amazon Prime or any other competitor. This is likely to make plane trips and other long slogs without an internet connection that much easier.