How many folks here still buy media (movies/TV) from Apple? I've never had an Apple TV, but I pretty much buy exclusively off of Amazon. Not only can I use the same iOS/Web app to view my purchased videos as the Amazon Prime streaming collection, but Amazon Prime is available on every other device I use, including smart Samsung TVs, PS4, and Android devices. Whereas the few things I've purchased off of the Apple store (sadly, classics like Aliens and Zoolander) are forever locked in the Apple ecosystem. I don't buy much music thanks to Spotify, but when I do I use Amazon Music as I suspect that will have more portability than iTunes will ever have.
I'm the opposite I buy all my entertainment from Apple, physical items from Amazon + hundreds of kindle books to read on iPad.
Apple TV is a fantastic device, way better than fire TV, I'm glad I can ditch it now, it's got a crap remote.
I'm also ditching way over priced Sky TV, I hate them for charging me and playing countless adverts on music channels, als the sound and video qaulity of Apple TV is so much better than Sky. Buy loads of films for the kids and rent adult films, also often buy a series pass for latest TV series if not on Netflix.
Amazons policy there is really baffling - I have their app on Sony TV running AndroidTV... but standalone Android TV STBs (Apple TV competitors) can't download it. Do they really make that much money from their Fire sticks that it's worth losing subscribers?
I entirely agree, it is infuriating. Also, I don't know if it's a technical or political issue but is there any good reason why the Amazon Prime app can't just 'cast' to my DVD player's Amazon Prime app in the same way YouTube manages to do to the DVD's YouTube app?
I don't think so. The other way to look at this is Amazon Video is now accessible on all platforms except Chromecast/Android TV – it's not about winning so much as making sure Google loses IMO.
I have Amazon Video on my Android TV. For some, it has to be sideloaded, which isn't as easy as phones, but it's not really that hard. It just doesn't come built-in or in the Google store for most of them.
The amount of people who will sideload apps on to their TVs is tiny, to the point of being negligible. When your mom wants to watch Prime Video, are you going to teach her how to sideload or just let her buy the Apple TV she already wants?
If it came to it, I wouldn't buy her an Apple TV anyhow. I'd tell her to buy a much cheaper Fire TV Stick or something. Or she'd watch it on the Kindle Fire she already has.
