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Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast

Posted by timothy on from the but-roku-is-ok dept.

Hot Hardware notes that Amazon has stopped selling two pieces of hardware -- Apple TV and Google's Chromecast -- that compete with Amazon's own streaming business. (They promised to drop them a while back; not everyone though they actually would.) From the article: While some have likened this move to being anti-competitive, it's hard to grasp whether the legal system would agree. Amazon's defense is that since these devices don't support Prime Video, it doesn't want to sell products to its customers and have them assume that they will."

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  1. Don't or Won't support Prime Video? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Amazon's defense is that since these devices don't support Prime Video, it doesn't want to sell products to its customers and have them assume that they will.

    Never mind the fact that Amazon seems to intentionally not be developing for either device, when smaller streaming services support Apple TV and the Chromecast API is open?

    1. Re:Don't or Won't support Prime Video? by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Insightful

      This is all on Amazon - they just are hoping people won't notice.

      There's an Amazon Video app on both my phone and iPad. I can watch Prime video there, although I rarely do since Prime Video largely sucks (most of what is there is obviously intended to drive the purchase of other Amazon video - it's all about "the first one is free").

      Meanwhile, my Apple TV has had Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc. for years.

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  2. anti-competitive by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you want an anti-trust lawsuit, usually you need political connections, and better political connections than your opponent. And Amazon keeps up on their payments, to both parties.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  3. Kind of circular reasoning by tylersoze · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since of course the reason those devices don't support Prime Video is that Amazon decided not to provide Prime Video on those devices, unlike say Netflix, Hulu, and every other streaming provider under the sun.