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What is Amazon's beef with Google?

I'm a little behind on the drama but Google killed youtube for firetv, amazon retaliated by dropping google home products.

Now it seems like they are feuding over nest like things too. Very interesting.

I always thought this was the other way around: Amazon dropped Google Home products in favor of their Alexa, so Google killed YouTube on FireTV to damage Amazon.

To be honest that was the reason for me to get a Playstation 4, so I could watch YouTube on my TV again. (And obviously for playing some games...)

I am using my old (physically damaged but functional) laptop behind a TV for this and more.

Works great with everything and you have full control of the content. Add a wireless keyboard (with trackpad) and you are done.

Games? Use Geforce now.

And another advantage of this approach is it allows you to lobotomize your "smart TV" so it can no longer track everything you say and do.

This is a good setup, too. My brother is using something like this and is quite happy with it.

> Amazon dropped Google Home products in favor of their Alexa

There was also Google breaking the ability for Amazon products to receive Chromecast streams.

Total "eye for an eye"-thing going on there, yeah.

It was definitely the other way round.

Amazing that the bookshop and search engine are fighting over how we watch TV.

You can't even cast Amazon Prime on Chromecast :(

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