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Amazon Launches 'Fire TV' Media Streaming Box with Voice Search, Game Support, and More

jrswizzle said:
Would love to see/hear something out of Cupertino.....this whole "teaser in June, no releases until the Fall" cycle is starting to get old.

Things are happening more quickly. I'm not saying the iPhone or iPad should be updated more frequently, but for heaven's sake, stagger the updates!

If things pan out, we could have new iPhones, iPads, AppleTVs, iWatches and Macs all in the second half of the year.....that's too much and makes the first part of the year crap....
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exactly. pushing things to the Fall means more time to buy other things during the first 3/4 of the year. THEN you bundle in Christmas and people might buy new Apple stuff then or might buy other things and skip the Apple stuff.

I understand not wanting a GREAT NEW product released in first 1/4 but they should be staggering more. Some devices are alway bought for Christmas/Fall season.
 
Titanium81 said:
It's not ONLY about the specs of a device, that makes it perform well. Software has a huge factor. Just look how iOS handles graphics better than any other mobile operating system out right now. Yet the devices that iOS run on have bare minimum amounts of ram and slower clock speed than the competitors.
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But the a7 chip has more raw power than everything else on a phone, today. But yeah, you are right...
 
derbladerunner said:
From coverage:



http://live.theverge.com/live-amazon-tv-video-event/

This will sell very well at $99. It's everything I expect from a re-newed Apple TV (hopefully coming soon).

The games looked quite good and the optional controller at $40 makes sense for people into casual games. Not everybody wants expensive console games.

Well done, Amazon. And I'm not even a huge fan of the company besides owning a low-end e-ink Kindle for reading books.

At this point the AppleTV needs to be upgraded.
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I'm thinking more of a travel companion. I'm on the road a lot and having a small set-top box that can stream content and give me some gaming options would be awesome!

Thing is, I'll either buy 1 of these now and upgrade my 3 AppleTVs later - or, if Apple announces similar gaming support and added features, I'd buy 4 AppleTVs....
 
pedromcm.pm said:
I thought that the point of vomiting "quad core" to define something that is supposed to be faster than "dual core" was already gone.

Give specifics and be honest, or shut up. Some good people here have a 1.3 dual core that would easily smoke that processor and those 2 gb of ram.

Seriously tech companies, stop targeting the lowest common denominator. About the TV itself, it's just another Apple-TV like with Amazon services. Good for amazon clients, I guess.
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I wonder why Apple did not stick with dual core for their MacPro. Trying to mislead consumers?
 
samcraig said:
Correlation does not imply causation
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If Wall Street really thought this was an "Apple killer" the stock would be down now. I'm guessing Wall Street thinks there's nothing here that Apple can't replicate. And with the previous ATV rumors it sounds like that's where Apple is headed. My guess is we'll see something from
Apple at WWDC.
 
guess i'll stick to airplay mirror from the iPad app but i have to say Amazon Instant Video + Prime next day delivery for only 15/25€ a year (as a student) is pretty awesome!
 
It's a blatant knockoff of the Apple TV, but I might have to get one if Apple doesn't offer better deals on the iTunes Store. Amazon Prime is a great deal. Apple's pricing is 2005-era, before there were competitors. It's like Microsoft and Office.

And no, not going to use Netflix. They have a horrible streamable movie selection, and they STILL haven't dumped Silverlight for their PC viewing.
 
bbeagle said:
No it's not. It's a good device just like the Apple TV. The Fire TV can do games right now and has voice on it's remote right now. Apple TV will have it soon too. They're both very similar.

They're also both closed ecosystems in their own way. Just like choosing Sony Playstation vs Microsoft XBox, Amazon wants the choice to be them vs. Apple TV/Roku/Google.

As long as Amazon prices it at $99 - they'll be in the game. Price this at $199 and it will be DOA.

Looks like the way they're going with pricing it will be something like $99 if you have an Amazon Prime Account and $199 without. We'll see....
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Funny how people think everything non-Apple is "too late to the game" or "doa" or "lame and useless".

I agree, $99 and cheaper to compete with aTV and Roku and its game on. I've been using a Roku 1 XDS since 2009 or 2010 (can't recall) and I still refuse to buy an Apple TV even though I own a MBPr, iPhone and iPad Mini. Why? Because no Amazon Prime and the Roku XDS still does everything I need.

I have NEVER purchased a movie/tv show from iTunes, ever, only music and that itself is very rare.
 
Being a Prime member I find it interesting but there is nothing compelling enough to make me switch to this from my ATV. What they are doing with the games is interesting but I am awaiting what apple will do with the new update. (which I hope is soon!)
 
thepowerofnone said:
Amazon is charging for a kid-safe service? What the hell? This should be standard! They have just exposed themselves to the child-safety vs corporate greed argument for no good reason.
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My first thought was the same so I looked up the service before making a final judgment and discovered for $2.99 you get child-safe content. It's not just controls. For $2.99 that's a bargain I'd like to see Apple match.
 
Oh ish....there's a Flixster App. That alone almost makes this worth it.....

Stupid UV Digital Copies....can't AirPlay and no app on the AppleTV.
 
bbeagle said:
Since Apple doesn't have an Amazon App on it's device....
and Amazon doesn't have an iTunes App on it's device...
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IF Apple adds the ability to have Apps, you can bet that Amazon will be on the ATV. However, it will never be the other way around.
 
Titanium81 said:
It's not ONLY about the specs of a device, that makes it perform well. Software has a huge factor. Just look how iOS handles graphics better than any other mobile operating system out right now. Yet the devices that iOS run on have bare minimum amounts of ram and slower clock speed than the competitors.
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Yeah. Just think how Safari (software) intelligently reloads pages again and again when multiple tabs are open. Who needs RAM anyways?
 
bzero said:
It's a blatant knockoff of the Apple TV, but I might have to get one if Apple doesn't offer better deals on the iTunes Store. Amazon Prime is a great deal. Apple's pricing is 2005-era, before there were competitors. It's like Microsoft and Office.

And no, not going to use Netflix. They have a horrible streamable movie selection, and they STILL haven't dumped Silverlight for their PC viewing.
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How is this a knockoff of Apple TV :rolleyes:

Rogifan said:
If Wall Street really thought this was an "Apple killer" the stock would be down now. I'm guessing Wall Street thinks there's nothing here that Apple can't replicate. And with the previous ATV rumors it sounds like that's where Apple is headed. My guess is we'll see something from
Apple at WWDC.
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Again - Correlation does not imply causation
 
Godzilla71 said:
Being a Prime member I find it interesting but there is nothing compelling enough to make me switch to this from my ATV. What they are doing with the games is interesting but I am awaiting what apple will do with the new update. (which I hope is soon!)
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You do not need to switch. You can use both.
 
lilo777 said:
I wonder why Apple did not stick with dual core for their MacPro. Trying to mislead consumers?
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Just quit it. I've been visiting this site for years and have always seen you trolling in the comments.

As you probably already know, more cores is better as long as it's more of the same cores. A 4-core machine can still be slower than a 2-core if the 2-core machine has better processors.
 
Have to admit, for consumption Amazon has created a great little ecosystem. Prime is one of the greatest services out there and adding gaming is awesome.

Let's just hope their gaming studio is more successful than their original programming has been.....
 
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