Post by account_disabled on Mar 5, 2024 3:39:45 GMT
The great competition between two of the internet giants is intensifying. Amazon and Google have been locked in a war that escalated to a new dimension earlier this month, when YouTube announced that it would cut off access to its services on Amazon Fire TV devices starting January 1. But the retail giant has not sat idly by and is already planning the successor to this platform: AmazonTube.
AmazonTube could arrive soon to compete against YouTube. Jeff Bezos has long taken the online video sector seriously. Thus, Amazon Prime has been Industry Email List launched in several countries around the world, and Amazon Fire TV devices have managed to reach many homes, through which users can watch Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. Of course, YouTube was also among the users' favorite platforms, so the withdrawal of the platform has not been well received by users... or by Amazon.
But this fact does not discourage the eCommerce giant: it has been announced that it plans to compete directly against YouTube with its own video platform, which could be called AmazonTube. On the same December 5 that YouTube announced its withdrawal from Amazon devices, the retail giant filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an internet service that will allow video streaming .
Two names are mentioned in the patent application: “ AmazonTube” and “OpenTube” and although in the description of this new application, discovered for the first time by TV Answer Man , no reference is made to YouTube, it is not difficult to link it with the most used video service that belongs to Google. In fact, in one section you can read that it is a service that "will offer non-downloadable audio, visual and audiovisual content and that works through wireless networks on a variety of topics of general interest."
An unprecedented fight between technological giants is comingWe might think that there is nothing strange about this and that it is to a certain extent logical that Amazon tries to complement the lack of YouTube on its devices through a streaming platform , but the truth is that the retail giant not only has a platform of active streaming (Amazon Prime Video) but two, since it has Twitch for video game streaming, so it is disconcerting that it is looking for another platform, with a name as obvious as AmazonTube .
But apparently that is the central idea, since it has even registered the domains AlexaOpenTube.com, AmazonAlexaTube.com and AmazonOpenTube.com and although this movement has not been officially declared by the company, it does not take much to know that the war is serious.
A train crash between giants of this nature is not so common, but the great competition that is being generated between these companies, with a greater number of products and services that they offer to users in an immensely different variety of sectors, has meant that Instead of collaborating, they become rivals.
One of the biggest disadvantages for users will be that every time they search (for videos, music or browsing) they will find the content they can access and not the one that is most appropriate for their needs, depending on which platform they use, and we It makes us wonder if in the future we will have a single dominant company, or if the giants will agree to coexist in an environment of collaboration.
AmazonTube could arrive soon to compete against YouTube. Jeff Bezos has long taken the online video sector seriously. Thus, Amazon Prime has been Industry Email List launched in several countries around the world, and Amazon Fire TV devices have managed to reach many homes, through which users can watch Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. Of course, YouTube was also among the users' favorite platforms, so the withdrawal of the platform has not been well received by users... or by Amazon.
But this fact does not discourage the eCommerce giant: it has been announced that it plans to compete directly against YouTube with its own video platform, which could be called AmazonTube. On the same December 5 that YouTube announced its withdrawal from Amazon devices, the retail giant filed a patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an internet service that will allow video streaming .
Two names are mentioned in the patent application: “ AmazonTube” and “OpenTube” and although in the description of this new application, discovered for the first time by TV Answer Man , no reference is made to YouTube, it is not difficult to link it with the most used video service that belongs to Google. In fact, in one section you can read that it is a service that "will offer non-downloadable audio, visual and audiovisual content and that works through wireless networks on a variety of topics of general interest."
An unprecedented fight between technological giants is comingWe might think that there is nothing strange about this and that it is to a certain extent logical that Amazon tries to complement the lack of YouTube on its devices through a streaming platform , but the truth is that the retail giant not only has a platform of active streaming (Amazon Prime Video) but two, since it has Twitch for video game streaming, so it is disconcerting that it is looking for another platform, with a name as obvious as AmazonTube .
But apparently that is the central idea, since it has even registered the domains AlexaOpenTube.com, AmazonAlexaTube.com and AmazonOpenTube.com and although this movement has not been officially declared by the company, it does not take much to know that the war is serious.
A train crash between giants of this nature is not so common, but the great competition that is being generated between these companies, with a greater number of products and services that they offer to users in an immensely different variety of sectors, has meant that Instead of collaborating, they become rivals.
One of the biggest disadvantages for users will be that every time they search (for videos, music or browsing) they will find the content they can access and not the one that is most appropriate for their needs, depending on which platform they use, and we It makes us wonder if in the future we will have a single dominant company, or if the giants will agree to coexist in an environment of collaboration.