Is there precedent for a company restricting access to its website by a competitor's device for competitive reasons?
I don't it's blocking the site. They're discontinuing the app. FireTV doesn't directly support web browsing at all.
Google Is Pulling YouTube Off the Fire TV and Echo Show
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#13Is there precedent for a company restricting access to its website by a competitor's device for competitive reasons?
I don't it's blocking the site. They're discontinuing the app. FireTV doesn't directly support web browsing at all.
Echo Show switched to showing YouTube through the web after Google blocked it the first time. Now it looks like Google is blocking the website. https://9to5google.com/2017/11/21/youtube-back-on-amazon-ech...
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#14Is there precedent for a company restricting access to its website by a competitor's device for competitive reasons?
like how you can't view amazon prime videos from android tablets (or at least, certain versions iirc.. amazon yanked it's apk from play store. i dont recall why, but some people simply side-loaded from amazon store).
I think you recall incorrectly. There's an Amazon Prime Video app in the Play Store.
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#16The big winner in this would seem, to me, to be Roku - one of those rare cases where being independent actually helps.
Sadly not available outside of the US.
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#17You know what, good for Google. I hate to sound like a child, but Amazon fired the first salvo by dropping the Chromecast a few years back. This move only seems fair.
Amazon removing the Chromecast from their store was, if anything, verification at the Fire TV was not a product that could succeed on its own. I love my Chromecast and I buy new models directly from Google, because no matter what Amazon says I know the difference between Google's product, and Amazon's copycat version of it.
Well, for me at least, amazon's copycat worked first time out of the box. Chromecast, alas, turned out to be an expensive plastic brick.
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Amazon removing the Chromecast from their store was, if anything, verification at the Fire TV was not a product that could succeed on its own. I love my Chromecast and I buy new models directly from Google, because no matter what Amazon says I know the difference between Google's product, and Amazon's copycat version of it.
Well, for me at least, amazon's copycat worked first time out of the box. Chromecast, alas, turned out to be an expensive plastic brick.
thank goodness that samsung TV's can play from both sources
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#19Is there precedent for a company restricting access to its website by a competitor's device for competitive reasons?
I don't it's blocking the site. They're discontinuing the app. FireTV doesn't directly support web browsing at all.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon removing the Chromecast from their store was, if anything, verification at the Fire TV was not a product that could succeed on its own. I love my Chromecast and I buy new models directly from Google, because no matter what Amazon says I know the difference between Google's product, and Amazon's copycat version of it.
Well, for me at least, amazon's copycat worked first time out of the box. Chromecast, alas, turned out to be an expensive plastic brick.
What issues did you encounter? And how can you call a $35 device "expensive"?