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I'm a bit confused about the logic here. Roku seems to be claiming that YouTube TV has a dominant position, and Google is threatening to withhold it to get unfa
by jsnell 6y ago
I'm a bit confused about the logic here. Roku seems to be claiming that YouTube TV has a dominant position, and Google is threatening to withhold it to get unfair benefits for the unrelated YouTube app. But the directionality is the wrong way around; YouTube TV the smaller of those services by orders of magnitude. It's dominates nothing at all, and it's a small miracle that it still exists at all. How could it possibly be used to extract unfair concessions?
Does anyone have a link to the full statement? Maybe this got garbled by the reporting somehow.
- kschwab 6y agoWhat was emailed to customers: https://pastebin.com/C3cEE3qq https://pastebin.com/C3cEE3qq The article with the most amount of direct quotes I could find: https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/roku-youtube-tv-google-dispute-1234960563/ https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/roku-youtube-tv-google... Some comments from Roku's founder on a prior, similar situation: https://popculture.com/streaming/news/roku-founder-reveals-why-hbo-max-peacock-arent-available/ https://popculture.com/streaming/news/roku-founder-reveals-w...