Amazon Blocks Video Streaming On BlackBerry Tablet, Blames Apple

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:23AM 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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Re:Summary is 100% correct by LordNicholas · 2012-02-14 07:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Indeed. I hear both Playbook owners are absolutely livid about this.
Re:Summary is 100% correct by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-02-14 07:35 · 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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I sense a great disturbance in the Force... by evel+aka+matt · 2012-02-14 08:01 · Score: 5, Funny

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