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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Chromecast users who couldn't access Prime Video and Fire TV users who couldn't access YouTube would beg to differ. That happened before there was Alexa. Maybe it only affected you when the speakers were released.
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I never had a problem getting to youtube with the FireTV stick, first gen.
The catfight started after the release of the Echo Show, not the speaker.
Before, FireTV had youtube access, even in 4K.
2016:
http://www.aftvnews.com/youtube-app-...ra-hd-support/
Afterwards, Google griped about the Echo Show interface and started blocking it:
http://www.aftvnews.com/amazon-resto...d-dailymotion/
http://www.aftvnews.com/google-to-pu...uary-1st-2018/
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Amazon and Google have been at odds for years. Their clash has reached a new level today. Google has issued a statement announcing that the company was pulling support for YouTube on the Amazon Echo Show immediately and will pull support for YouTube on Amazon Fire TV devices on January 1st, 2018.
Google’s official statement on the matter is:
“We’ve been trying to reach agreement with Amazon to give consumers access to each other’s products and services. But Amazon doesn’t carry Google products like Chromecast and Google Home, doesn’t make Prime Video available for Google Cast users, and last month stopped selling some of Nest’s latest products. Given this lack of reciprocity, we are no longer supporting YouTube on Echo Show and Fire TV. We hope we can reach an agreement to resolve these issues soon.”
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Amazon and Apple had a similar conflict but Apple never blocked Amazon services for their users and Amazon never blocked apple users from their services or Google users from their devices.
Google went after users to pressure Amazon.
There's a difference.