Fire TV lacks iTunes and Google Play. Apple TV lacks Google Play and Amazon Prime Instant Video. Chromecast lacks iTunes and Amazon Prime Instant Video.
And now we have a million and one ways to watch Netflix.
Amazon Fire TV
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
With screen mirroring, Apple TV offers the ability to play any game in the App Store on a TV wirelessly without having to buy a controller. That game library will likely always be larger than this one. Granted, you must have an iPhone or iPad, but I am surprised that Apple does not tout this feature more. I use it daily and it is pretty awesome.
If AppleTV let me watch Amazon Prime video it would be perfect. I use Amazon Prime and Hulu+ for TV, and right now the only device I have that lets me watch both is my PS3, and its UI sucks (plus it's constantly requiring me to download updates).
I've had a Roku for more than a year and it offers both Amazon Prime video and Hulu+. (And Netflix and many other apps.)
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#233So that answers my question of whether my Apple TV would ever get Amazon streaming.
I think you mean "any device that isn't Amazon branded", since Android devices that aren't in the Kindle Fire family also can't watch Amazon streaming stuff. Amazon is attempting vendor lockin.
There's an Amazon Instant Video app for Google TV.
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#234Looks like we can develop for this. If you're an Android developer you should check out all the specs and docs here: http://bit.ly/1pLH83y
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#235This device plus antenna input for over-the-air local HD channels combined with simple dvr functionality would be the ultimate cord-cutting device.
Exactly. Especially one without a monthly fee for service. It seems with the storage costs and the processing power here, Amazon could integrate that easily.
Edit: the really interesting part is that when searching for "DVR" in electronics, the first result is this device.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Del...
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#236Android Developers who want to jump into this opportunity: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb.html & https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/blog/author/Mi...
It would be interesting to know if the Fire TV is running on X86 or ARM processor. Anyone know?
Processor type is on the Amazon product page. ARM.
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#237Looks like we can develop for this. If you're an Android developer you should check out all the specs and docs here: http://bit.ly/1pLH83y
This is pretty cool. Makes sense to port over my apps. Seems pretty straight forward. We basically just need to change UI and game controller functions...
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#238Android Developers who want to jump into this opportunity: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb.html & https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/blog/author/Mi...
It would be interesting to know if the Fire TV is running on X86 or ARM processor. Anyone know?
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#239Android Developers who want to jump into this opportunity: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/asb.html & https://developer.amazon.com/public/community/blog/author/Mi...
You can check out all the specs here for any developer looking for it: http://bit.ly/1pLH83y
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
Constantly? http://us.playstation.com/support/systemupdates/ps3/history/
Compared to any other device I use, PS3 updates are unusually intrusive. Almost nothing seems to be done automatically, so I'll end up with 5 minutes of downloading update apps and system updates before I can do what I intended to do when I sat down. Oh, and the updates are often "required", meaning you're prevented from even running your out of date app. I'm hopeful that they fixed most of these issues for the PS4 (…
> PS3 updates are unusually intrusive
I totally agree with that statement, I just was taken aback by the word "constantly."