Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV

Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by amorphid on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:42PM (#15858291)

To go a step further, Amazon no longer allows one to buy a Chromecast on Amazon.com. This alone makes me mad at Amazon.

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by guyzero on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @11:23PM (#15858476)

And the reason they used to give is that "Chromecast doesn't support Amazon Prime Video and that's confusing for users" - well guess whose decision that was?

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by narrowtux on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:40AM (#15860062)

Same thing with the Apple TV. And they apparently said that Apple wouldn't let their app into the store which is BS, since they already have an app for Prime Video for iOS.

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by piyush_soni on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @03:02AM (#15859398)

That's misleading to say the best! It's clearly the other way round and should be told that way.

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by raverbashing on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:35AM (#15860043)

Amazon also has a weird bureaucracy regarding where they ship to/from their Amazon Fire devices

the "standard" one just ships to certain countries, the "basic" one only ships from certain places to certain other places

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Re:Google Is Blocking YouTube on Amazon's Echo Show and Fire TV by jacksmith21006 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:17AM (#15892030)

Plus when you search for a Chromecast you get a Fire stick. Amazon is in the wrong here and glad to see Google push back.

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