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April 19, 2019

Amazon and Google are officially friends now: YouTube on Fire TV, Prime Video on Chromecast and Android TV

Way back in December of 2017, Google pulled YouTube off of the Fire TV citing a “lack of reciprocity” by Amazon. Amazon would not carry Chromecast and Google Home products on their store, Prime Video did not support Chromecast, and new Nest devices were being pulled. Consumers were the ones to suffer the most because of these companies’ disagreements. However, Amazon essentially announced yesterday that they and Google are officially friends now. Hooray!

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January 9, 2019September 27, 2021

Here’s what all Google announced for the Assistant at CES

Google Assistant is going big (I didn’t say useful) at CES this year. The Assistant is getting new features and is being built into almost everything, lock, stock, and barrel. Here’s a brief overview of every new device, device-integration, and feature Google has announced so far.

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September 16, 2018September 18, 2018

[Update: More info] OnePlus is adding ‘OnePlus TV’ to its product lineup

In a blog post, OnePlus CEO, Pete Lau, announced that OnePlus is building a new product: the OnePlus TV. This is OnePlus’ first time to move beyond mobile devices and accessories.

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September 22, 2017October 19, 2017

YouTube confirms a YouTube TV app for Android TV and Roku are in the works

The Google-owned company, YouTube, launched YouTube TV in early April of this year, and since then, the platform has seen some welcome growth. However, one of the biggest drawbacks of the service since launch day has been a) its lack of some big channels such as CNN and TNT and b) it’s limited in the devices you can watch on. But today, and in the sometime future, that’s going to change—at least in the devices part.

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