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they were never good at each other. To have the best of two worlds is to have one Chromecast and one Fire TV. At least I don't need an Apple TV nowadays because Chromecast is good enough for local streaming and some occasional mirroring from Mac (although not the same quality as Apple TV).
It's called Nvidia Shield - Chromecast with access to Amazon.
You can receive VUDU (Walmart), Prime Video (Amazon), and YouTube/Play Movies (Google). The only thing you cannot receive is Apple's ecosystem (but no non-Apple streaming hardware can as far as I know). Same reason why Spotify is so prevalent, they too are neutral in this war between titans.
I have no sympathy for Google or Amazon in this particular situation since both have a track record of blocking out competition when they can. I do have sympathy for customers who get caught in the middle of these little disputes.
- [0] https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/the-google-wa... - [1] https://www.amazon.jobs/working/working-amazon
Be careful when considering this so as not to be inconsistent with your reasoning behind NN for ISPs.
Just a week ago, Google was among among the leading tech companies fighting for people against censorship and arbitrary blocking, and now this...
This is actually even worse than the future Stallman predicted, where our books would be blocked at the whim of the copyright holder. At least then you could sort of understand the rationale: the idea that the rightsholders should get to decide how you consume the content is intuitive, if ultimately false. But now we cant watch stuff just because the megacorporations are fighting and we are collateral damage. They do…
Agreed this absolutely sucks. Amazon fired the first shots tho. This is their fault and they should put Google products back up on their store.
Know where I can still watch both Youtube and Amazon Video? On my ten year-old Playstation 3.
I don't blame Google, nor do I blame the hardware vendor - I don't expect my devices to receive software updates forever, and I don't expect Google to keep the same API forever either.
Know where I can still watch both Youtube and Amazon Video? On my ten year-old Playstation 3.