Amazon & Google mend fences, bring YouTube back to Fire TV streamers

That's going to be welcome news for many Fire TV owners, my daughter and son-in-law being two of them. They love YouTube 

Yeah can’t watch YouTube on show because of advertising is blocked 

I'm likely an idiot, but I can't figure out why anyone would buy a special purpose device like a game device or a TV streaming device when a general purpose device like a real computer can do pretty much everything a special purpose device can do. Extra devices mean more hardware to support, more software licenses to purchase and maintain, more wires to plug in, more electricity to use, more companies to submit my email address to, and just more grief that I don't want. Even worse, my ISPs contact me (like they did today) to try to get me to *rent* boxes to watch programs on. Rent! And those boxes remove my ability to modify the recorded programs later, just for example, maybe I want to make a GIF or JPG of my favourite TV actor to be my Avatar for some website. I can't do it with their hardware. People want to take my money on a monthly basis to remove my ability to do what I can already do with my general purpose computer.

22july2013 said:

I'm likely an idiot, but I can't figure out why anyone would buy a special purpose device like a game device or a TV streaming device when a general purpose device like a real computer can do pretty much everything a special purpose device can do. Extra devices mean more hardware to support, more software licenses to purchase and maintain, more wires to plug in, more electricity to use, more companies to submit my email address to, and just more grief that I don't want. Even worse, my ISPs contact me (like they did today) to try to get me to *rent* boxes to watch programs on. Rent! And those boxes remove my ability to modify the recorded programs later, just for example, maybe I want to make a GIF or JPG of my favourite TV actor to be my Avatar for some website. I can't do it with their hardware. People want to take my money on a monthly basis to remove my ability to do what I can already do with my general purpose computer.

You are not dumb, you are just blind.  :D  If a computer is the right device for you, then that's great! Keep buying computers. But for many people, myself included, if I want to throw Netflix up on the big screen, doing so from a computer is more complicated than it needs to be, an Apple TV does the task perfectly.

It's about purposeful devices. Same reason that we have separate fridges, freezers, stovetops, oven, microwaves, toasters, dish washers, clothes washes and dryers. I'm sure you have each of these, and nobody is trying to force you to make toast in the dishwasher. So you can relax about it now. Breathe, and repeat after me: "I am in control of my spending".  ;)

Amazon and Google mending fences?

Fingers crossed for my Nest Hello Doorbell to be announced on Amazon Alexa shortly then!

Odd that I can view I’ve video streams from my Nest Cam IQ’s on Alexa Shows & Spots but it wont notify me when the doorbell rings...