“Amazon has followed through on its plans to go nuclear on its competitors: The company removed all listings of Apple’s Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast streaming adapter from its website Thursday,” Janko Roettgers reports for Variety.
“This includes listings from third-party resellers, as well as used and previous-generation devices sold through Amazon’s marketplace,” Roettgers reports. “Users who search for Chromecast or Apple TV instead get recommendations for Amazon’s own Fire TV devices.”
“The company confirmed the decision to stop selling both devices when contacted by Variety, sending a statement that read in part: ‘It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion,'” Roettgers reports. “Blaming missing support for Amazon video on Google and Apple is somewhat misleading: Chromecast has long had an open SDK, allowing any publisher to add casting to their mobile apps. And the newest Apple TV, which Apple is starting to sell this week, also includes an app store that Amazon could use to distribute its own app.”
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MacDailyNews Take: As we wrote on October 3rd:
Amazon had better be careful lest they gain and cement the reputation as “the everything store that doesn’t offer everything.”
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