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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by knexer on Thursday October 01, 2015 @05:28PM (#10314874)
Does the Cast SDK depend on google play services? If so, that's got a pretty spotty technical record on their Fire devices, and I don't think Amazon is allowed to redistribute it anyways. Might be they don't want to implement Chromecast support for every platform except their own.
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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by andybak on Thursday October 01, 2015 @06:30PM (#10315238)
If it did - how would it work on iOS?
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Re:Amazon Will Ban Sale of Apple, Google Video-Streaming Dev... by firloop on Thursday October 01, 2015 @09:02PM (#10315943)
My understanding is that to implement the Cast SDK in an Android or iOS app, one must link a closed source binary.

On Android, it's Google Play Services, while on iOS it's a custom Cast binary that Google provides to developers to link in their apps. Due to this, almost all apps that support Cast are on iOS, Android, or Chrome because closed-source binaries are only distributed for those platforms.

Amazon would have to make special arrangements to include the Cast SDK on Fire OS. I still don't think this excuses them from bringing a proper Amazon Prime Video app with Cast support to iOS and (Google's) Android.

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