Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Devices

Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by yohui on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:10PM (#10313807)

Are we referring to the same article? The Android Police article linked above reports that Amazon blocked users who tried to run the app on non-Sony TVs:

> But now it doesn't work. "License Error" codes have started showing up when running the Instant Video app on the Nexus Player, presumably because someone at Amazon saw that it was running on non-blessed hardware and shut it down.

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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by azakai on Thursday October 01, 2015 @04:11PM (#10314297)

I meant the original article this entire discussion is about, which says

> Amazon’s streaming service, called Prime Video, doesn’t run easily on its rival’s hardware.

So it does run, at least according to the article. But it's either hard to make it run, or it doesn't work well. Both of those seem to contradict your link. Very puzzling, I guess one of those must be wrong?

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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by yohui on Thursday October 01, 2015 @04:43PM (#10314548)

Assuming Bloomberg didn't just fudge the phrasing, they were probably referring to how Amazon Video requires the Amazon Appstore to be installed first: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/splash/sd/t/appstore

There are no technical or legal barriers preventing Amazon from supporting iOS and Android devices.

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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by azakai on Thursday October 01, 2015 @04:44PM (#10314552)

Ok, thanks, I was confused by how they phrased it.

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