A few months ago Amazon stopped selling all the set-top boxes of more direct competition, among which we find the Apple TV and Google Chromecast since apparently you failed to reach any agreement with both companies so that its Prime Video streaming video application include natively. On this issue, in the conferences being organized to ReCode, CEO of Apple Jeff Bezos has been asked for the reason not to sell hedge-top boxes of the competition.
Roku devices we sell, we sell Xbox, sell PlayStation. We are pleased to be able to sell competitive devices at Amazon and we do it every day. We also sell thermostats Nest. When we sell other devices we want our service Prime Video this available on these devices after reaching a beneficial agreement by both parties.
If we do not reach an agreement, don’t want to sell such devices because users who buy at Amazon buy them thinking that Prime Video is available on those devices and we don’t want to deceive or annoy our customers to the extent that it can think in returning it.
When asked Bezzos if mutually acceptable conditions have to do with the 30% Commission which is Apple’s all subscriptions that are made through the App Store, Bezos refused to answer the question, saying that the negotiations with the manufacturers are private. Last October, Apple stopped selling the Apple TV and Google Chromecast, stating that it was important for them to be able to offer your service natively on each device sold. In November the engineer of Amazon said that they were working in an application that would reach the market at the end of last year.
At the moment the application has yet for the Apple TV, although it is available for a wide variety of platforms and operating systems. The iOS app is available for download for free without having contracted annual package Amazon Prime, since the company’s Bezos launched a monthly fee for Prime Video 8,99 dollars a month, which can be hired independently. Amazon Prime is available for Android, OS Fire, Amazon Fire TV, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii, Wii U, TVs and players Blu-ray LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Vizio
