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Apple to Announce Amazon Prime Video for Apple TV at WWDC

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Apple plans to make a major Apple TV announcement at WWDC that should delight Amazon Prime subscribers - the addition of an Amazon Prime Video app for the Apple TV.

The news comes courtesy of BuzzFeed's John Paczkowski, who often accurately shares details on Apple's plans ahead of events. According to Paczkowski, sources of Apple's plans say the company will announce an Amazon Prime Video app during its keynote event.

There are tentative plans for the app to go live in the summer, but its official release date could change.

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With Amazon Prime Video on the Apple TV, Amazon also plans to resume offering the Apple TV through Amazon.com. Amazon stopped offering the Apple TV and the Google Chromecast in 2015, citing Amazon Prime Video incompatibility as the reason why. It is not known when the Apple TV will return to the Amazon website.

News of a potential deal between Apple and Amazon that would see the app made available on the Apple TV first surfaced last week. At the time, Apple and Amazon were said to be close to an agreement, and now an agreement has been reached.

Amazon Prime Video is one of the only major streaming video services that is currently absent from the Apple TV, and Apple TV owners have long wanted to see the Prime Video app on Apple's device.

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I think it was very short term thinking to put one of their products before a subscription based service. Even Apple hasn't done that.
 
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JilzVT said:
Not sure this deserves a big announcement. Just highlights how bad it was that this hasn't always been available. And yes, I blame both sides.
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Big announcement? They'll probably spend 5 minutes on stage talking about it, if that. It's not like the entire event is about Amazon Prime Video. Also, why would you blame both sides? The App Store developer tools have been there for quite some time now... the only ones who chose not to use them is Amazon.
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lhammer610 said:
It was never clear to me who was preventing this from happening, Apple or Amazon. Since it was available on the iPad, it just did not make sense for it not to be on the AppleTV.

Who gave in?

Does this mean that Amazon will start selling the AppleTV again?
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It was Amazon. I sincerely doubt Apple blocked the app from being on the App Store.
 
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HailstormX said:
Its about time. Now when will they start selling the Apple TV on Amazon. :)
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If you read past the headline you would know.

Seriously, they're wasting valuable keynote time on the same company that snubbed them? Amazon pulling Apple TV from their store must've done more damage than Apple is willing to admit.
 
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This is good as I have Amazon Prime Video (for the Grand Tour) and while I already have three streaming services I subscribe to (due to there being different shows on each) I rarely watch anything on Amazon other than TGT simply because it is a pain to use. A native app on the ATV4 will make it more likely my family will use it. Dumb move on Amazon's part to not have this already.
 
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