You’ll also be able to use Alexa within the app to start playing music from Amazon Music Unlimited, Prime Music, or songs you’ve purchased, as well as open Kindle books, both of which present a new built-in media player. You’ll also be able to tap into Alexa’s other smarts for getting news, weather and traffic information, and the ability to use Alexa Skills and Smart Home features. Those can be configured just like Echo and other Alexa devices via the: “Skills are voice-driven capabilities that enhance the functionality of your Alexa-enabled device. Set skills and Smart Home capabilities using the Alexa app or on.”.

Says that while it’s not yet a done deal, the two companies are close to agreeing terms. The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers’ time, eyeballs and money, are close to an agreement to bring an Amazon video app to Apple’s Apple TV set-top box, according to people familiar with the two companies. Amazon employees expect the app to show up on Apple’s hardware in the third quarter of the year. Amazon had something of a falling out with Apple over the cut it takes from in-app purchases, which would have meant Apple taking a slice of rentals and purchases from the (many) movies and TV shows not included in the Prime deal.

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While an exists for Apple iOS devices, it’s a crippled version of the app, which doesn’t allow users to buy or rent individual programs without visiting Amazon first. As retaliation against Apple, Amazon stopped selling Apple TV boxes on its website back in 2015. A finds mostly accessories and competitor products, though a few do slip through. China type c usb 3.1 to vga cable adapter for mac. Jeff Bezos stated that the reason for this was because Apple wasn’t offering ‘acceptable business terms.’ We want our player, our Prime Video player, to be on the device, and we want it to be on the device with acceptable business terms. And so, you can always get the player on the device; the question is can you do so with acceptable business terms.

And if you can’t, then we don’t want to sell it to our customers, because they’re going to be buying it thinking they can watch Prime Video and then they’re going to be disappointed. And they’re going to return it. It’s believed that a deal could only have been reached at a high level, possibly through talks between Tim Cook and Jeff Bezos personally. Photo: Engadget.