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Amazon Will Resume Selling Apple TV, Google's Chromecast (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on from the all-good dept.

Ina Fried, reporting for Axios: Amazon confirmed Thursday that it will again sell the Apple TV set-top box and Google Chromecast dongle. The company had stopped selling the devices amid disputes with both giants. There's a lot of frenemy stuff at play here, with Google, Apple and Amazon all selling their own streaming devices, but also looking to offer their own services on one another's devices. Apple doesn't offer its programing on rival devices, but does move a lot of hardware through Amazon.

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  1. Re:So Amazon blinked? by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Interesting
    60% of Amazon orders are filled by thirdparties, Amazon is just a storefront. All of them are offering identical products in Walmart, Home Depot and Best Buy storefronts. Already there are people making money in arbitrage, and the indications are that Amazon is more expensive than these competing store fronts. Google can scrape the site and show the product offered in all these sites.

    Vendors too do not want to let Amazon grow too big for them to handle, and they don't want to depend too much on Amazon. Walmart is prohibiting its vendors from using Amazon cloud services for their inventory management and such stuff. It claims, fairly or unfairly, Amazon snoops on the cloud data.

    Amazon is quite vulnerable, and at some point it might spin off the profit making Cloud services and detach it from the low margin retail sales.

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  2. Re:Not familiar at all by Daemonik · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What's that? Amazon didn't want to sell competing devices once they provided their own? Too bad Amazon isn't as trustworthy as Comcast and Verizon who will absolutely not prioritize content that they are personally invested in.

    Tell you what, when Apple lets you install an Amazon app store on their devices and Google sells Alexa's through the Play store, then you can bitch about who's trustworthy and treating their competitors fairly.