When Apple showed off the new Apple TV last month, my first thought was “I want Amazon Prime Video on this thing,” but that dream may be dying.
Spencer Soper points out that the gulf between Apple and Amazon is growing:
The Seattle-based Web retailer sent an e-mail to its marketplace sellers that it will stop selling Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast. No new listings for the products will be allowed and posting of existing inventory will be removed Oct. 29, Amazon said. Amazon’s streaming video service, called Prime Video, doesn’t run easily on rival’s devices.
“Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime,” Amazon said in the e-mail. “It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion.”
I don’t know what the beef is between the companies, but this sort of thing is disappointing to see.