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Well, if I needed a reason not to buy a Fire Stick, here it is. If you can't sell your product without striking down competitor's products, than clearly your c
by RIMR 11y ago
Well, if I needed a reason not to buy a Fire Stick, here it is.
If you can't sell your product without striking down competitor's products, than clearly your competitors have a better product.
- sandGorgon 11y agoDoes anyone here have a Kindle Fire Stick? It seems to already have dual band, has double the memory/ghz of a chromecast and most importantly - does not need a phone or computer to work. It comes with an independent remote control and built in apps to run. Plus, it already has Spotify. I'm wondering why you would get the Chromecast over the Fire Stick.
- moron4hire 11y agoI have the Fire TV box, not the stick. The availability of apps on it is kind of annoying, and in the early days video playback was really buggy. But the interface is one of the nicest set-top boxes I've personally used. I prefer it to Apple TV and certainly Roku. I haven't tried Chromecast, though.
- hullo 11y agoWe use an original generation Fire Stick specifically for Prime streaming (everything else is on Apple TV), and it's an okay product, but Amazon's dual goal to provide free streaming while also driving purchases makes it a flawed product in the same way that Apple Music within iTunes made me pull out my hair. The new generation with voice should be a good improvement (the amazon remote app for smartphones already incorporates it for the original generation of fire sticks).
- RIMR 11y agoI always have a phone, tablet or computer within reach, so it's not a problem to have no dedicated remote (one less thing cluttering my living room, actually). I also use legal-greyarea services like Put.io, which only work on Chromecast because of how open the ecosystem is. Before this I used a Boxee Box, which I preferred over the competitors because you could load it full of homebrew (including Put.io). The Chromecast is most-used HDMI device in my house, because it works with everything I use.
- sandGorgon 11y agoactually a lot of people have made the web-analytics-dashboard-for-the-workplace-on-TV using the fire stick. it's fairly open. https://github.com/amzn/web-app-starter-kit-for-fire-tv https://github.com/amzn/web-app-starter-kit-for-fire-tv
- bduerst 11y agoPut.io is such a good service it hurts - it usually takes 60 seconds to go from thinking about watching just about any movie to streaming it on your TV via chromecast. It kind of annoys me that I didn't think of setting something up that was similar.
- discordance 11y agoPut.io's terms are a bit scary for the regular illegal use it's usually advertised for - 'Put.io may disclose specific contact information when we determine that such disclosure is necessary to comply with law, to cooperate with or seek assistance from law enforcement or to protect the interests or safety of Put.io or other visitors to the site or users of the Services. Also, your contact information may be passed on to a third party in the event of a merger, acquisition, consolidation, divestiture, or a bankruptcy of Put.io.'
- xiaomai 11y agoI have the chromecast and the Fire stick. I love my chromecast, I impuse bought the fire stick when it first came out and was selling for really cheap. I like the fire stick because my kids can use it (they don't have devices to control the chromecast with). I don't like basically everything else about it: - poor app selection (everything I've ever wanted to use (except Amazon Prime) works on my Chromecast, the Fire stick is only good for Amazon/Netflix content (there's a few other things out there, but not enough to matter). - poor playback: once it gets going, the fire stick is fine, but when it first starts streaming stuff it tends to stutter. This drives me crazy.
- robterrell 11y agoI have the original fire stick. It's fine, nothing great. I prefer stand-alone devices -- using a computer with a chromecast == me doing tech support for the kids all the time. It has ended up being our default netflix client due to the nice not-IR remote.
- kale 11y agoI have both. The Fire Stick Audio cuts out every other day and the stick has to be reset. It forgot my login once and had to be factory reset. It has yet to play a video without some stuttering/frame drops/minor audio-video sync. And as for practical reasons: I use my Chromecast when the kids run away with the FireTV remote. It's more convienent to use a phone or tablet than it is to find the remote. Finally, On my TV at the far side of my house, which is not that far, the FireTV can't see my WiFi. I have my AP mounted in the ceiling (POE cable to my switch), with one wall partially between the AP and the TV. Chromecast connects just fine, the FireTV stick does not. In my experience, Chromecast is a much better product than the FireTV stick.