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Good on Amazon for continuing to improve! FireTV launched April 2014 New FireTV to ship October 2015 versus Google Chromecast which was amazing when launched

• dragonwriter 11y ago
  > Good on Amazon for continuing to improve! FireTV launched April 2014 New FireTV to ship October 2015 Sure, a year and a half later they release a more featureful, more expensive, variant on the product they initially released. Good for them, but... > versus Google Chromecast which was amazing when launched in July 2013. But absolutely ZERO improvements in OVER 2 years. :( Chromecast launched July 2013, true; it was (and is) a ~$35 media stick. And November 2014 -- a little under a year and a half later -- Google released a more featureful product that subsumed the basic functions of the Chromecast, had more onboard capability for apps, etc., and included a game controller, the $99 (now $79), Android TV based Nexus Player. So, I don't think its really fair to say Google hasn't done anything here. Amazon's path isn't all that different from Google's.
• redxdev 11y ago
  Chromecast is pretty much a dumb terminal, though. Almost all improvements come from apps supporting it, and on that front Chromecast has done very well. Also, for $35 you can't really beat what you get from a Chromecast even today.