Why would people take this stand? Amazon has as much right to sell what it wants as Apple has in their own stores. What do you get from avoiding Amazon for all products merely because they've chosen not to sell a particular product you can get elsewhere? I genuinely don't understand your point.
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Amazon to Cease Selling Apple TV, Google Chromecast Over 'Prime Video' Incompatibility
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Why would people take this stand? Amazon has as much right to sell what it wants as Apple has in their own stores. What do you get from avoiding Amazon for all products merely because they've chosen not to sell a particular product you can get elsewhere? I genuinely don't understand your point.
Did dropping Bose when they bought beats hurt Apple? Does not selling Amazon products hurt Apple. You are being way too dramatic.
Apple dicatates what they do for their app stores, retail stores, etc. And these policies change over time. Why? They own it. It really doesn't matter what their sales model is. If they don't want to approve a certain app, then more power to them. It IS their store.
Same with Amazon..
Stop waving the Pom pom's, Apple dropped Bose when they bought beats. It's exactly the same.
A lot of speculation in this thread based on barely a thread of information. Based on where Apple seems to be going with the new ATV I think this move is the tip of the iceberg that is Apple and Amazon wrangling over dividing the spoils for access to Amazon’s content. It’s larger than simply having an Amazon app that can be accessed on the new ATV, it’s more likely about the really important aspect of the new ATV: being able to use one interface to access content from a wide range of sources. Users do not want to have to remember which app they used to access which programs, they want what Apple showed at the recent gala, the cable-cutter’s equivalent of one ring to rule them all. Amazon can’t simply write an app for this, they need to be part of that interface. I was disappointed, although not at all surprised, that the new ATV content interface did not include Amazon Prime, and I suspect that fighting over how much Apple would take off the top for allowing Amazon to be included in this interface is what’s going on below the water line. Amazon’s trying for all the leverage it can find, and this pissy move of dropping ATV from it’s marketplace is part of that.
I personally do not want yet another app to access yet another content source on my ATV, I want that “one ring” that allows me to find what I want easily via one interface. I hope this can be sorted out, but we’ll never know what’s really going on behind the scenes until it is, one way or the other.
I personally do not want yet another app to access yet another content source on my ATV, I want that “one ring” that allows me to find what I want easily via one interface. I hope this can be sorted out, but we’ll never know what’s really going on behind the scenes until it is, one way or the other.
Better ban the music streaming apps and anything else that apple competes with. How about Hulu, hbo, netflix? Or is amazon Apple's only competitor?
I believe it still is. On the mobile devices, the prime app still does not compete with the apple TV since you would need an apple tv to stream it from the apple device to a TV. I do remember reading multiple times over the years that apple wouldn't allow the prime app on the apple tv. Netflix, HBO, HULU, etc do not make a competing box and therefore are not competition.
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My guess is that they will, and then they will start selling the Apple TV. The advantage to them from taking this approach is twofold: First, they can roll-out their own device without much direct initial competition on Amazon (otherwise, their sales indicators might show the new Apple TV ahead of their own device -- a bad look at launch). Second, when they finally decide they are ready to release an app on the Apple TV, it will appear that Apple caved in order to have the product sold on Amazon. This all boils down to theater, but there's little downside from Amazon's perspective.
see below your post. I was actually writing about that very thing when you posted.
File away, prepare to lose. Apple stopped selling Bose when they bought beats, you going to file against them also? You going to file anti trust because Apple does not permit Amazon streaming on TV ? It works both ways.
That's not an equal comparison. Apple sells Apple products (for the most part), has a small partnership with some compatible products.
Amazon is a retailer (Google owns the Android OS) that sells pretty much everything.....except Apple TV's soon.
Apple isn't leveraging their strength in retail stores to try and force sales of their hardware. Quite the reverse.
Don't assume Apple is disallowing an Amazon Prime app. They almost surely are not.
I am assuming you can't back that statement up any more than the people who are saying they're blocking it. It's all speculation. And as others posted, they both can choose who they choose to sell/not sell (Apple -> Bose, Amazon -> Apple TV)
Yea, so it's not likely an apple issue of denying them ability to put content on the Apple TV. dumb move by Amazon.
It is not currently possible to submit applications for the new Apple TV. When Apple begins accepting tvOS submissions (usually about a week or two before launch), Amazon will have no trouble getting their app approved if it conforms to all developer guidelines.
There is absolutely no reason to believe otherwise.