YouTube on Amazon devices feud escalates

[HEXUS]

YouTube has decided to pull its service from both the Amazon Echo Show and the Fire TV.

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[Tabbykatze]

Technically Amazon could be pulled on anti-competitive practices by refusing to sell a competitors products on its open sales platform. Same way Google is being pulled up by putting its Shopping results at the top of the list instead of competitor shopping comparison sites.

Amazon are being petty and Google are pretty justified. If the largest worldwide selling platform just decided to junk my product and not provide access to their services on my product which is a competitive solution then I would quite happily tell them to go stuff themselves.

Removing Youtube is a good thing, two behemoths are going at loggerheads, shame it makes a worse solution for us as the consumer but it needs to be done. Amazon need to be taken down a notch.

[Biscuit]

Tit for tat
Having their cake and eating it

what else we got...

[LSG501]

Slightly off topic but 'big corporations' pull this 'exclusivity' lark all the time then wonder why people resort to 'alternative' methods to get what they actually want on the devices they actually own...
All this will do for amazon/google is bad PR for both or tech savvy people will resort to alternative options.

[shaithis]

Slightly off topic but 'big corporations' pull this 'exclusivity' lark all the time then wonder why people resort to 'alternative' methods to get what they actually want on the devices they actually own...
All this will do for amazon/google is bad PR for both or tech savvy people will resort to alternative options.

And PR for non-techies as well. People expect these features to be available and if they buy a device and something that EVERYONE expects to work, doesn't, then it's going to leave a very bad taste in the mouth, especially when they find out why.

[MLyons]

I saw this last night in bed. It will pretty much kill my fire stick for the one use I have for it.

[Biscuit]

I saw this last night in bed. It will pretty much kill my fire stick for the one use I have for it.

This is why I have been avoiding amazon streaming products despite their enticing prices.

[ik9000]

you could watch youtube on firestick? Who knew? Never crossed my mind to try it...

[pp05]

My tv comes with youtube installed on it.

[Ttaskmaster]

So... which one owns YouTube, again?
Man, I don't even know what TV sticks do, really... I'd just connect up a small HTPC, if it were me.

[MLyons]

So... which one owns YouTube, again?
Man, I don't even know what TV sticks do, really... I'd just connect up a small HTPC, if it were me.

HTPC is much harder to fit behind a TV and harder to convince a family member to use instead of a £30 stick with a few buttons

[Biscuit]

Chromecast is the way forward. I do like my Roku 2 though!

[kyliebae]

don't have any idea as well how TV sticks work? lol but i have YouTube on our PS3.

[Biscuit]

don't have any idea as well how TV sticks work? lol but i have YouTube on our PS3.

Its just a really small computer (bigger than a USB dongle, smaller than a Raspberry Pi) that plugs into your television. In the case of the chromecast, it has no interface and you have to connect via an app on your phone. Roku and Amazon Firestick both have a GUI and remote control.

[Wrinkly]

Tit for tat
Having their cake and eating it

what else we got...

Sounds like Brexit, a lot of tits, spouting tat. Turns out BJ never had cake to begin with.

[Ttaskmaster]

HTPC is much harder to fit behind a TV and harder to convince a family member to use instead of a £30 stick with a few buttons

Can TV stick also internet and game and stream from my PC or play video files that the "Smart" TV doesn't otherwise recognise?
Plus, if she breaks it I can probably fix it...