Google is pulling YouTube from Amazon devices (again)

[davrosG5]

Google is pulling YouTube from Echo Show and Fire TV, as feud with Amazon continues

 

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Amazon and Google’s feud continues today, as Google is pulling its YouTube app – again – from Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo Show device. This will be followed by the app’s removal from Fire TV in the near future.

 

So that sucks if they don't come to some agreement. I use my FireTV to watch a fair bit of YT content (including the WAN show) on my TV 

[Princess Luna]

4 minutes ago, davrosG5 said:

Google is pulling YouTube from Echo Show and Fire TV, as feud with Amazon continues

So that sucks if they don't come to some agreement. I use my FireTV to watch a fair bit of YT content (including the WAN show) on my TV 

Why not just get a cheap but decent laptop and connect it to the TV through HDMI? I never understood the purpose behind stuff like FireTV

[Aleks NE]

7 minutes ago, davrosG5 said:

Google is pulling YouTube from Echo Show and Fire TV, as feud with Amazon continues

 

 

So that sucks if they don't come to some agreement. I use my FireTV to watch a fair bit of YT content (including the WAN show) on my TV 

Just get a Chrome Cast, it's cheaper and as long as you can get it on your Phone or Computer you can stream/cast it to your TV.

[Orangeator]

4 minutes ago, said:

Just get a Chrome Cast, it's cheaper and as long as you can get it on your Phone or Computer you can stream/cast it to your TV.

This is literally the exact reason Google is pulling YouTube support from the Fire Stick, so people just say hey, lets buy a Chrome Cast instead (made by Google). This really isn't consumer friendly.

[Aleks NE]

6 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

This is literally the exact reason Google is pulling YouTube support from the Fire Stick, so people just say hey, lets buy a Chrome Cast instead (made by Google). This really isn't consumer friendly.

Who cares, it's how business works Google cares about profit, not Amazon and their customers.

[BloodyWaters]

18 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why not just get a cheap but decent laptop and connect it to the TV through HDMI? I never understood the purpose behind stuff like FireTV

A firestick is cheaper and designed for this kind of stuff.

[TAHIRMIA]

19 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why not just get a cheap but decent laptop and connect it to the TV through HDMI? I never understood the purpose behind stuff like FireTV

What if you want to share something on your phone? Also it is not always convenient for people to have a laptop behind their TV.

[Probably Alex]

Here's hoping that Google doesn't start pulling their content off of Roku devices. 
 

[Orangeator]

16 minutes ago, <Aleks> said:

Who cares, it's how business works Google cares about profit, not Amazon and their customers.

You must not understand how laws work... This without a doubt will be put under a microscope.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Probably Alex said:

Here's hoping that Google doesn't start pulling their content off of Roku devices. 
 

Agreed, or bluray players

[Drak3]

29 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Why not just get a cheap but decent laptop and connect it to the TV through HDMI? I never understood the purpose behind stuff like FireTV

10ft UI and a lightweight OS

[Orangeator]

Just now, Probably Alex said:

Here's hoping that Google doesn't start pulling their content off of Roku devices. 
 

Google doesn't have content without the people. They just have a service, a host. They don't have a lot of actual content.

[Aleks NE]

15 minutes ago, BloodyWaters said:

A firestick is cheaper and designed for this kind of stuff.

£10 more than a ChromeCast

[Aleks NE]

4 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

You must not understand how laws work... This without a doubt will be put under a microscope.

No, you must not understand, Google owns the Copyright to YouTube, they can pull it from any device, anytime they feel like it.

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, <Aleks> said:

£10 more than a ChromeCast

It's also more powerful than a Chromecast and usable on its own. 

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, <Aleks> said:

£10 more than a ChromeCast

The base fire stick is $4 more in the US. But the Fire Stick is actually worth the cost.

[Aleks NE]

Just now, Drak3 said:

The base fire stick is $4 more in the US. But the Fire Stick is actually worth the cost.

Every currency is different, for me its a tenner more

[intender]

its a catch22 for both sides.  Google wants access to more of amazons stuff like prime video and prime music, in addition to amazon selling their products.  Amazon knows that the major selling point of their products is access to prime video and prime music and their sells might go down tremendously if they dont have the only means of accessing them.  The only thing google can do in retaliation is pull youtube.  I recently bought a google home mini and it serves my purposes well since I have an all google ecosystem, the only thing I wish I could do with it that I cant is prime music.  For my wife however who has apple products, she could care less about the google stuff, she just wants something to stream her prime music and connect some smart lightbulbs to. 

 

I cant help but wonder if google will also pull youtube from the amazon tablets as well.  I had an amazon tablet at one point back when they first came out with the cheaper ones.  We bought it thinking it would be great to give the kids in the car rather than the $300 ipad since it was only about $60 when we got it, and it drove me insane not being able to get on google play and get all my apps that I already owned.  Having to go through the amazon store was a deal breaker for me.  I ended up giving it to my parents because they have a fire stick hooked up their tv and have a bunch of movies that they have bought on prime that they can now watch on the tablet if they want.  They also loved the one click purchase in the amazon store, but with two small kids in the house, being able to buy anything they wanted if they got ahold of the tablet was also a deal breaker.  I think since then they have either password protected purchases or made a way to disable it, but at the time there was no way to stop it

[Trixanity]

8 minutes ago, <Aleks> said:

No, you must not understand, Google owns the Copyright to YouTube, they can pull it from any device, anytime they feel like it.

Unless they get hit with a antitrust lawsuit. Google's ownership of YouTube and all it entails doesn't matter if it infringes on competition laws. Especially in the EU they'll have a hard time pulling anti-consumer shit like that and they've already been smacked a couple of times with more smacks looming in the horizon.

[intender]

2 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

Unless they get hit with a antitrust lawsuit. Google's ownership of YouTube and all it entails doesn't matter if it infringes on competition laws. Especially in the EU they'll have a hard time pulling anti-consumer shit like that and they've already been smacked a couple of times with more smacks looming in the horizon.

But they did it in response to amazon pulling products and support for their products so who wins in that fight?

[D13H4RD]

Honestly, they should come to a consensus soon...

 

This just screams "childish bickering". I get that business is business.

 

But guess who ends up losing in this fight.

[iRileyx]

Hmm, not used any of the devices it is being removed from, but their YouTube 'app' on the fire tablets is literally just a link to the mobile YouTube website

 

Hopefully my fire Tablet won't be affected though, had to manually download the apks for play store/YouTube, so if they block it on those too I'll be pissed. 

[Trixanity]

8 minutes ago, intender said:

But they did it in response to amazon pulling products and support for their products so who wins in that fight?

It was more of a general statement that large corporations can't hide anti-competitive and/or anti-consumer behavior behind patents or copyright. At least not in first world countries. 

 

I don't really have a horse in the Google-Amazon race.

[mynameisjuan]

Amazon blocks their services from chromecast devices and have been for years, but then google does it and shit hits the fan?

 

I love double standards!!!! People can whine anti-consumerism all they want but what requires them to have their service on a competitors product? 

[79wjd]

11 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Amazon blocks their services from chromecast devices and have been for years, but then google does it and shit hits the fan?

People actually care about Youtube, whereas Amazon Prime Video is terrible.