Clearly Amazon doesn’t like competition because the news is out that sales of the Chromecast and Apple TV are verboten on Amazon. The reason? I’ll let Bloomberg tell you:
The Seattle-based Web retailer sent an e-mail to its marketplace sellers that it will stop selling the Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast since those devices don’t “interact well” with Prime Video. No new listings for the products will be allowed and posting of existing inventory will be removed Oct. 29, Amazon said. Prime Video doesn’t run easily on its rival’s hardware.
Translation: You run our streaming service or else we won’t sell your products. That’s backed up by this:
Roku Inc.’s set-top device, Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox and Sony Corp.’s PlayStation, which work with Amazon’s video service, aren’t affected, it said. Amazon’s Fire TV stick, which plugs into an HDMI port to connect televisions with streaming services such as Netflix and Prime Video, is the company’s best-selling electronic device.
Now Amazon can sell whatever it wants. But in the age of social media, why would it do something that it’s going to get lit up like a Christmas tree for? That makes zero sense to me. But whatever. They’re clearly willing to take the heat. No matter how shortsighted the reason might be.
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Amazon Bans Chromecast And Apple TV…. Really Amazon?
Clearly Amazon doesn’t like competition because the news is out that sales of the Chromecast and Apple TV are verboten on Amazon. The reason? I’ll let Bloomberg tell you:
The Seattle-based Web retailer sent an e-mail to its marketplace sellers that it will stop selling the Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast since those devices don’t “interact well” with Prime Video. No new listings for the products will be allowed and posting of existing inventory will be removed Oct. 29, Amazon said. Prime Video doesn’t run easily on its rival’s hardware.
Translation: You run our streaming service or else we won’t sell your products. That’s backed up by this:
Roku Inc.’s set-top device, Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox and Sony Corp.’s PlayStation, which work with Amazon’s video service, aren’t affected, it said. Amazon’s Fire TV stick, which plugs into an HDMI port to connect televisions with streaming services such as Netflix and Prime Video, is the company’s best-selling electronic device.
Now Amazon can sell whatever it wants. But in the age of social media, why would it do something that it’s going to get lit up like a Christmas tree for? That makes zero sense to me. But whatever. They’re clearly willing to take the heat. No matter how shortsighted the reason might be.
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