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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by yohui on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:19PM (#10314813)
Amazon claims it's removing Apple TV and Chromecast because they don't support Amazon Video... but Amazon was the one who decided not to support Apple TV and Chromecast in the first place.

Chromecast and Apple TV are more than popular enough to warrant app support, so it can't be a question of platform marketshare, either. (Chromecast support is so simple that the idea Amazon can't do it is laughable.) Android TV is not as popular, but Amazon already has an Android TV app, except it's restricted to Sony TVs: http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/05/16/amazon-disables-the-...

This is not a retaliation. Amazon's suggestion that this is Apple or Google's fault is simply false.

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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by kuschku on Thursday October 01, 2015 @10:12PM (#10316242)
Chromecast support is not really simple, considering Amazon probably uses a different DRM system than the one Google implemented.
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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by chinpokomon on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:01AM (#10317275)
But for a day you could use Primecast. Amazon deliberately disabled that, so there isn't a technical reason they couldn't have resolved it.
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