Amazon Fire Tv Esssay

As Amazon the company itself has many different competitors all of different lines of business. It is not surprising that the company's competitors are going to go head to them on any product the produce. Or if Amazon is going to make a product to compete against their competitors product. The Amazon Fire Stick is a not as a unique product as Amazon wants it to be. Many small companies try to make a similar product as the Fire Stick. Beside the smaller competitors, the Fire Stick still fights for the number one stream device against the big boys Google and Apple.

Google had made their first portable stream device the Chromecast in 2013. One year before the Amazon Fire Stick. “The Chromecast is a tiny dongle plugs into the HDMI port on your TV, and lets you wirelessly stream content from the Web using virtually any mobile device as a remote control.” (Bradley, 2013) The Chromecast was the first to bring out such a product. One that is able to connect to any TV capable of a HDMI. This product made it accessible for non-smart TV’s to be able to connect to web streaming services. Such services include Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and ect. The difference between the Fire-Stick and Chromecast is that any mobile device may act as the Chromecast remote. Rather than the Fire-Stick where there is a physical remote. This has a greater advantage for Chromecast due to the better user accessibility and convenience.

The second main competitor to the Fire-Stick is Apple’s Apple TV. The Apple TV had released their first version in 2007. Since then they have improved their product by a great some. The Apple TV is less of a stick like Chromecast or Fire-Stick. It is more of a media player box like a cable box that the box is connected to the power outlet then separately connected to the TV through an HDMI cable. Apple TV still provides the same web streaming services as the Chromecast and the Fire-Stick. One of the biggest advantages of the