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Old 10-02-2015, 07:53 PM   #46
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As I've stated elsewhere, my streamers of choice are XBOX and WDTV live, both of which (for different reasons) are light years ahead of all three products in the catfight.
My streamer of choice is a Fire TV Stick because it was cheap ($19) and gets the only two streams I care about - Netflix and Prime Video.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:13 PM   #48
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I don't see why Amazon would or should carry competitor eBook readers. It's not like Kobo lets you buy books from the Amazon ebook store.

I agree.. I can't go to the Apple Store or the Google Play store and buy a Fire tv....so I'm not sure why the reverse is a big deal.
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To me Amazon has been as they describe themselves an A to Z online store that sells everything. I could better understand if they themselves decided not to sell the devices, yet they are also banning third party sellers from selling them. This is a strange move, and I would be very concerned if I was a competitor who depended on AWS. This a petty move by Amazon. They are becoming a "Smother" with their services, from pushing Prime to locking in authors for Kindle Publishing. They are becoming the defacto online retailer of everything. Let's hope they don't develop a rough Amazon brand of toilet paper, would be too bad Angel Soft.
http://fortune.com/2015/10/02/amazon-chromecast-apple/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/...own_prime.html
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To me Amazon has been as they describe themselves an A to Z online store that sells everything. I could better understand if they themselves decided not to sell the devices, yet they are also banning third party sellers from selling them. This is a strange move, and I would be very concerned if I was a competitor who depended on AWS. This a petty move by Amazon. They are becoming a "Smother" with their services, from pushing Prime to locking in authors for Kindle Publishing. They are becoming the defacto online retailer of everything. Let's hope they don't develop a rough Amazon brand of toilet paper, would be too bad Angel Soft.
http://fortune.com/2015/10/02/amazon-chromecast-apple/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/...own_prime.html
I would guess that they are getting real support costs where people buy one of these and then call up and complain to Amazon support that they can't watch prime video on it. It's not even like Amazon is selling them itself. I'm sure there are other reasons as well.

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I would guess that they are getting real support costs where people buy one of these and then call up and complain to Amazon support that they can't watch prime video on it. It's not even like Amazon is selling them itself. I'm sure there are other reasons as well.

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Amazon has had requests from customers for years to get their video everywhere including on Apple and Google products. That was misleading by Amazon at best to make it sound like they were shut out by Apple and Google. They could have had Amazon Video on the Chromecast 2 years ago when it was first released. Google has an open API for developing for the Chromecast: https://developers.google.com/cast/ . The only reason Amazon did not have an app for Chromecast was Amazon didn't want to.
Chromecast is the 6th best selling item on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-E...bs/electronics
They would have stopped selling it long ago if customer problems was the case. The truth is Amazon is shutting out competing products. They want to lock people into their ecosystem. If they only sold hardware and software like Apple, that would be fine. But they are selling themselves as the retailer who sells "everything". If they are shifting that focus to force out competitors and only sell their products, they have become something else and should be honest about it. Look at the timing--Google just released a new Chromecast, Apple will be selling a new Apple TV at the end of the month. Amazon is stifling competitors, only 20% of their customers use Prime Video, so what is the real issue?

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It’s clear that Amazon doesn’t want to sell products that compete with its own Fire TV streaming hardware. It might have dressed this whole thing up as a service to the customer, but it has never been more utterly transparent that the firm feels threatened by Apple TV and Google Chromecast.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorri...hind-the-spin/
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Apple will do the same as they did for, oh, Netflix, Google play movies, HBO, et cetera...

They'd let it through.
As far as I know Google Play Movies is not yet available on Apple TV. But I think you are right, as long as app guidelines are observed, they would let it through.
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So... You kids are discussing your TV program, right?
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Old 10-07-2015, 01:56 PM   #56
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I can see why, Apple does not like competition in there stores or on its websites, so turn about is fair play.
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I wonder if there's any connection. And I wonder why Amazon would want to shut out Chromecast and Apple TV users from accessing the service.

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Amazon.com Inc. is exploring the creation of an online pay-TV service to complement its existing video offerings and has reached out to major media companies including CBS Corp. and Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal about carrying their channels, according to people familiar with the matter.
Amazon Said to Weigh Creating a Online Pay-TV Service
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Interesting situation. I feel like telling Google and Amazon "Girls, girls, you're both evil. Now work it out!" It would better for consumers if they could get along.
I basically agree. This is just stupid. Meanwhile I'll just watch Prime Movies via Chromecast with the Google Cast extension in the Chrome Browser (like I do now). Not the slickest solution, but it works.
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An Amazon search for Chromecast now gives results for Firesticks An Amazon search for Apple TV now gives results for streaming media players.

It was rumored that hundreds of thousands of these devices were sold on Amazon, so this may be a goldmine for ebay sellers of these banned items. I bought my Chromecast 2 on ebay ...
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