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Amazon outright banned the sale of Apple TV and Chromecast on Amazon’s marketplace for years, until Google/Apple agreed to include Prime Video. Amazon faced zer

by p49k 6y ago

Amazon outright banned the sale of Apple TV and Chromecast on Amazon’s marketplace for years, until Google/Apple agreed to include Prime Video. Amazon faced zero consequences. This isn’t new behavior.

scarface74 6y ago
Apple never banned “Amazon Prime”. Apple wanted Amazon Prime from day one. Why wouldn’t Apple want Amazon Prime on Apple TV’s when it already existed on iOS devices ?
- p49k 6y ago
  I didn’t say Apple banned anything? What I’m referring to happened in 2015. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-will-ban-sale-of-apple-google-video-streaming-devices https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-wi...
  - scarface74 6y ago
    You still made it sound as if Apple and Google didn’t “allow” Amazon Prime on their devices. Amazon wouldn’t ship Prime Video on their devices.
  - wmeredith 6y ago
    > until Google/Apple agreed to include Prime Video Your phrasing definitely implies that had disagreed to include Prime at some point.
Polylactic_acid 6y ago
Off on a tangent but does anyone else feel depressed at the state of TV streaming? We have 3 companies with their own proprietary streaming devices and protocols which all work great inside their own ecosystem but suck outside of it. Apparently open standard protocols exist but implementations are broken or incompatible on tvs and OSs are dropping support. I have a few chromecasts sitting around but now I have an iphone they are all useless and I have to buy an Apple TV which is 4x-5x the cost of a chromecast and only works on my apple devices.
- gundmc 6y ago
  Our iPhone tends to work pretty well with our Chromecast Ultra as long as you are using apps and not safari. Most apps are cast enabled - Netflix, HBO, ESPN, YouTube, Hulu, etc. Hasn't been much of an issue at all.
  - Polylactic_acid 6y ago
    Hm thats interesting. I want to cast from my nextcloud server and it seems to work on the android version of nextcloud but not the ios one.

by p49k 6y ago

scarface74 6y ago

Apple never banned “Amazon Prime”. Apple wanted Amazon Prime from day one. Why wouldn’t Apple want Amazon Prime on Apple TV’s when it already existed on iOS devices ?

p49k 6y ago
I didn’t say Apple banned anything? What I’m referring to happened in 2015. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-will-ban-sale-of-apple-google-video-streaming-devices https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-wi...
- scarface74 6y ago
  You still made it sound as if Apple and Google didn’t “allow” Amazon Prime on their devices. Amazon wouldn’t ship Prime Video on their devices.
- wmeredith 6y ago
  > until Google/Apple agreed to include Prime Video Your phrasing definitely implies that had disagreed to include Prime at some point.

Polylactic_acid 6y ago

Off on a tangent but does anyone else feel depressed at the state of TV streaming? We have 3 companies with their own proprietary streaming devices and protocols which all work great inside their own ecosystem but suck outside of it. Apparently open standard protocols exist but implementations are broken or incompatible on tvs and OSs are dropping support. I have a few chromecasts sitting around but now I have an iphone they are all useless and I have to buy an Apple TV which is 4x-5x the cost of a chromecast and only works on my apple devices.

gundmc 6y ago
Our iPhone tends to work pretty well with our Chromecast Ultra as long as you are using apps and not safari. Most apps are cast enabled - Netflix, HBO, ESPN, YouTube, Hulu, etc. Hasn't been much of an issue at all.
- Polylactic_acid 6y ago
  Hm thats interesting. I want to cast from my nextcloud server and it seems to work on the android version of nextcloud but not the ios one.