Amazon has done it yet again! Talk
about killing 2 Birds with one Stone!
Yet another one of my articles has come to pass, though not exactly as
prophesied in my blog
article entitled “Amazons
is planning to launch a Streaming Set Top Box by March 2014 - Amazon Prime
Kindle Box is a Dash of Cinnamon and may be the ultimate savior of Gaming
Consoles”.
The Amazon
Fire TV is being sold on Amazon’s
Website for US$99, with some competing retailers quick to ride on the sales of
this very promising Streaming device.
This product fits with Amazon’s
philosophy to not only be EMC3 (Earth’s Most Customer Centric Company) but also
to increase access to Amazon’s Content
Library, be it Book or Videos by making their own device, like the Amazon
Kindle Fire as stated in my blog article
entitled “Amazon
launches a pair of Kindle Fire 2 - ACS-Xerox Call Centers in Jamaica ramp up as
Kindle Fire begin to Sparkle”.
Straight out of the box, the US$99 Amazon
Fire TV will come packing the following channels:
1.
Amazon Instant Video
2.
Disney
3.
Hulu Plus
4.
MLB
5.
Netflix
6.
Showtime
7.
Watch ESPN
8.
YouTube
The Specs are equally impressive but unimportant:
1.
2GB RAM
2.
Voice Control
3.
Bluetooth Remote Control
4.
Wi-Fi (and possibly streaming to the Amazon
Kindle Fire)
5.
HDMI Support
Alternately, Roku along with Google, Apple and anyone else making US$99 Set
Top Boxes can issue software updates that enable their Set Top Box with the
ability to recognize a Game Controller and thus play BOTH Hardcore and Casual Video
Games.
Amazon, in effect, has thrown down
yet another Gauntlet challenge to Apple, which may force them to upgrade the
Apple iTV to a Gaming Console for their Games on the Apple iTunes Store as
stated in “Amazon
Fire Tv should light a fire under Apple”, published April 3, 2014 5:27 AM
PDT, by Lance Whitney, CNET News and "AMAZON’S
$99 FIRE TV PUTS APPLE, ROKU ON NOTICE WITH VOICE SEARCH, OPEN ECOSYSTEM",
published April 2, 2014 By Caleb Denison , DigitalTrends.
Amazon Prime Members Delight –
Amazon Fire TV Cord-Cutter Nirvana and Console Gaming Renaissance
So no, it’s not Amazon PrimeAir,
albeit that may be coming to pass very soon based on the outcome of the Team
BlackSheep founder Raphael Pirker case as stated in my blog article
entitled “NTSB
Judge Patrick Geraghty rules Drones for commercial purposes are now free -
Forward thinking Black Sheep founder Raphael Pirker leading America towards an
Almost Human Future”.
However, you DID read the second paragraph right, dear reader! “Gaming
Console”, as the Amazon
Fire TV, which costs US$99, comes with a Game Controller, suggesting that
when you’re tired of Streaming TV, you can switch to playing Games from Amazon’s Store.
And it does benefit Amazon Prime
Subscriber. Their yearly subscription upped to US$99 (there’s that number
again), they can now enjoy Streaming Amazon Instant Video on a dedicated device
that packing other channels that they can watch straight out the box.
Amazon is clearly aiming to take
over the Video Gaming World as well, as apparently Tablets wasn’t enough as
stated in “Amazon
Fire TV: World domination through video games”, published April 3, 2014
2:52 PM PDT by Nick Statt and Joan E. Solsman, CNET
News.
Effectively too, in a single stroke with a single device, Amazon has killed the hopes of Indie Game
Hardware makers like Ouya and Playjam by making a 2-in-1 Devices that provides
erstwhile entertainment when viewers are otherwise distracted as stated in my blog
article entitled “Google
Android powers Boxer8's Ouya, PlayJam's GameStick and Nvidia's Project Shield -
Stand Up Guys are making Open Source and Open Architecture a $ellebrity”.
The Game Controller will cost you an extra US$40 bucks, according to the
article “Amazon
introduces $40 Fire Game Controller”, published April 2, 2014 8:14 AM PDT
by Donna Tam, CNET News to play most likely
Game titles designed and made by Double Helix, Amazon’s
most recent purchase made on Wednesday February 5th 2014.
Most likely, Amazon may be aiming to
introduce their device in China, now that that market has opened up for the
production and sale of Video Game Consoles as stated in my blog article entitled “China
allows Console Makers to manufacture Video Game Consoles in Shanghai Free Zone
- Social Mobile Cloud Gaming Revival with Legit Chinese Customers and defense
against Apple and Google” .
Apple, the ball is clearly in your court to
debut a Apple TV and Apple iTV Set Top Box that can do all of this as opined in
my blog
article entitled “Apple
to launch TV and a Cloud Gaming Console in 2014 - How the Apple iTV and
Television Set can kill The Grandmaster in the guise of Nintendo, Sony and
Microsoft”.
Amazon is now basically tapping into
the lucrative Streaming Market of Cord-Cutters in the US of A as prophesied in
my blog article
entitled “Cable
TV subscriptions Declines as the Connected Home boost IPTV Streaming”.
Folks, the specs aren’t important here, it’s the concept, as Amazon may have just resurrected Console
Gaming which Tablets had killed as I’d declared in my Geezam blog article entitled “How
the Apple iPad killed Ultrabooks, Printing and the Mouse as the World
Rediscovers Tablets” with a creative Dash of Streaming for Amazon Prime
Customers!
Here's the link to purchase Amazon's latest toy:
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