Thread: Amazon v. Google: soon no YouTube on Fire TV
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Old 12-11-2017, 10:34 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by JoHunt View Post
The feud is heating up. Amazon will not allow sales of Google products. Now Amazon is dumping YouTube on some devices.



https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/1...w-nest-devices

Many are upset about this. I have a Chromecast and FireTV, so I won't lose YouTube access on my old, dumb TV.
I thought YouTube already wasn't on FireTV (if you understand what I mean). I know it isn't available through the Amazon App Store on my Fire tablet.

Prime Video only showed up in the Play Store recently.

I'm not a fan or a hater of either of them, but in the end, I feel for Google on this one. Amazon's Fire OS is just a Google-less Android and they had that underhanded Amazon App store on Android for a while.

As for Chromecast or FireTV, seems you are better off with a third party Roku or something like that. I use a Samsung Blu-Ray player that has access to YouTube and Amazon Video.
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