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This is gold: "It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion."
by Jyaif 11y ago
This is gold:
"It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion."
- roymurdock 11y agoCopywriters must have had a laugh coming up with that one.
- shogun21 11y agoThere will be even greater customer confusion when people are wondering where are the Apple TVs and Chromecasts.
- isomorphic 11y agoThe new AppleTV has an App Store. Does this mean Amazon can't or won't create an app for Prime Video for the AppleTV? (Can't or won't, either answer would be telling.)
- cordite 11y agoIf a device comes with a useable app store, I'd rather it not come with tons of bloatware for every service ever out of the box. At this point it just seems Amazon is touting their weight.
- robwilliams 11y agoThis move is obviously them using their position in the marketplace but I would imagine they would avoid the App Store as Apple takes a significant chunk of every purchase.
- jkestner 11y agoMillions of people using the Kindle app on iOS deal with the workaround. You just can't buy within the app.
- cordite 11y agoBut, you don't pay for the app, you shouldn't need to pay for the app--much like Netflix. The service is separate.
- r00fus 11y agoYour problem is perspective... Amazon Prime video doesn't want to become Netflix. They're more like a loss leader for the non-free purchases... And that's where Amazon makes its money from video.
- otterley 11y agoThe new Apple TV hasn't shipped yet, but my guess is that this restriction will not apply to it - it is highly likely Amazon is working on an app for it and will have it available at release time, or shortly thereafter.
- LukeB_UK 11y agoThe best bit about this is that most devices that they compete with can support Prime Video, they just choose not to release it on those platforms. Roku devices in the US can use Amazon Prime Video, in the UK we can't. Edit: Roku was autocompleted to Ross. Fixed.
- ohitsdom 11y agoIf a bull ate gold nuggets then crapped them out- yes, this is gold. It's the biggest steaming pile of gold I've ever read.