If your point of buying it was to install non Amazon apps, you’re why Amazon are making this change.
Fire sticks are primarily for Amazon services.
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Humanius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Doesn’t that kind of release the point of buying a Fire Stick? Pretty sure most people bought that thing as an affordable Android TV box.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 weeks ago
Addv4@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
True, but their main value proposition has been for a while that you can jailbreak them and stream pirates content on them, even for your less technical users. Honestly, it seems like Amazon is probably doing this for liability reasons rather than profit, as if profit were the motive, then they could increase the cost of the device due to “inflation”.
XLE@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
There’s some inherent value of having competing companies trying make their Smart Stick an option on any TV. Amazon is more likely to sue, I don’t know, Samsung if their TVs forced you to log into a Samsung account before using the Amazon stick. The average consumer sure won’t be able to sue.
(I don’t know how restrictive smart TVs are, though, and at this point I’m afraid to find out.)
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
That’s never going to happen