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Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple

Posted by Soulskill on from the mr-bezos-tear-down-this-wall dept.

AZA43 writes "Amazon.com has blocked its Instant Video streaming service on BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, in an apparent effort to make its Kindle Fire device more attractive to tablet buyers. And it says Apple is the reason why it blocked the service. But the company hasn't blocked comparable Android tablets from streaming Instant Video, and Android tablets hold a much larger portion of the overall tablet market than PlayBooks. Amazon will likely succeed only in alienating customer with PlayBooks who have already purchased lots of streaming video content."

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  1. Summary is 100% correct by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Amazon will likely succeed only in alienating customer with PlayBooks who have already purchased lots of streaming video content."

    Yup, that single customer is going to be really really upset about this. Good thing it doesn't affect more people.

    1. Re:Summary is 100% correct by LordNicholas · · Score: 5, Funny

      Indeed. I hear both Playbook owners are absolutely livid about this.

    2. Re:Summary is 100% correct by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

      Indeed. I hear both Playbook owners are absolutely livid about this.

      The guy has a multiple personality disorder? Didn't know that.

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  2. From who? by SuperKendall · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear both Playbook owners are absolutely livid about this.

    Well to be fair the second guy has not got word to us yet, still trying to find his Blackberry so he can get an email out about his fury.

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  3. I sense a great disturbance in the Force... by evel+aka+matt · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...as if 4 voices suddenly cried out in terror and then went on with their lives.

  4. Re:Yoda by written the subject line was by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since it only makes sense when you replace Apple with Adobe, then yes, you can assume they meant Adobe.

    You might want to look up what "assume" means.

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  5. Re:Yoda by written the subject line was by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    The CS email is a buch of garbage that makes no sense.

    So... pretty much like every other customer service email from any major company that asks any sort of question more complex than "Where do I click to [insert action here]?" Just saying.

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