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Re:The case for ending Amazon’s dominance by bduerst on Saturday February 17, 2018 @06:21PM (#16403391)
No. Alexa runs on it's own hardware. Where did you hear that?
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Re:The case for ending Amazon’s dominance by njwi332 on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:16AM (#16412197)
GP is probably referring to the fact that google blocked the youtube app from working on Alexa devices.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/05/google-is-pulling-youtube-...

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Re:The case for ending Amazon’s dominance by bduerst on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:26PM (#16422055)
That happened because Amazon violated Youtube's TOS by stripping key services like subscriptions, channels, etc. Amazon can implement Youtube as long as they follow the TOS, which they're choosing not to.

It's a rule set that everyone has to follow when using Youtube, and isn't singling out Amazon the same way that Amazon is singling out Apple and Google.

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