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No, if anything, it signals a withdrawal for Amazon's own streaming device efforts (Fire TV).
by umeshunni 9y ago
No, if anything, it signals a withdrawal for Amazon's own streaming device efforts (Fire TV).
- discreditable 9y agoI hope so. Amazon's refusal to work with Google Cast is the sole reason I don't use the service.
- izacus 9y agoAmazons policy there is really baffling - I have their app on Sony TV running AndroidTV... but standalone Android TV STBs (Apple TV competitors) can't download it. Do they really make that much money from their Fire sticks that it's worth losing subscribers?
- wccrawford 9y agoCan't they? I'm pretty sure it's on my nVidia Shield box. And you can always sideload it like any other app. It's just not on the Google store.
- izacus 9y agoIt won't run if you sideload it (they added HW checks in one of the later versions). If your device ships with it, then you have it.
- hanoz 9y agoI entirely agree, it is infuriating. Also, I don't know if it's a technical or political issue but is there any good reason why the Amazon Prime app can't just 'cast' to my DVD player's Amazon Prime app in the same way YouTube manages to do to the DVD's YouTube app?
- alttab 9y agoI highly, highly, doubt that. If anything - Amazon is going to win because it can now Monetize Apple customers.
- hbosch 9y agoI don't think so. The other way to look at this is Amazon Video is now accessible on all platforms except Chromecast/Android TV – it's not about winning so much as making sure Google loses IMO.
- wccrawford 9y agoI have Amazon Video on my Android TV. For some, it has to be sideloaded, which isn't as easy as phones, but it's not really that hard. It just doesn't come built-in or in the Google store for most of them. However... http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1482242316 http://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=1... Dec 2016: Amazon Video app now available on Sony Android TVs internationally
- hbosch 9y agoThe amount of people who will sideload apps on to their TVs is tiny, to the point of being negligible. When your mom wants to watch Prime Video, are you going to teach her how to sideload or just let her buy the Apple TV she already wants?
- tacomonstrous 9y agoAmazon Prime is available on all nVidia Shield TVs.
- wccrawford 9y agoWell, I'd probably sideload it for her. If it came to it, I wouldn't buy her an Apple TV anyhow. I'd tell her to buy a much cheaper Fire TV Stick or something. Or she'd watch it on the Kindle Fire she already has.