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Originally Posted by OtinG
Amazon will never “own” the streaming market with the services they offer now. Their music service is terrible, unless you like listening to elderly rockers forgetting the words to their songs during lackluster live performance recordings. Their video streaming is very expensive since they charge extra for most of their offerings choosing to force you to rent or buy rather than include it in their Prime Video. Personally I think all these various devices being released are a sign that Bezos must be smoking the same stuff Elon Musk is! Or if he isn’t, maybe he should be.  |
No, you miss the point. They don't care WHAT you use as the music source -- they're perfectly happy to stream Pandora or whatever. Same with Video. What they want to own is "the last mile" in a streaming sense. Just as they do for everything else they sell. So they started out with physical books. Then added physical music CDs. Then more and more dedicated stores within the Amazon framework. Then they added third party vendors and gave them the promise of warehousing and a secure selling portal with LOTS of traffic. Then they added vendors who don't use the warehouse, but do use the portal. All the same to them, they make their cut regardless. Now they want to do the same for streaming.