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Roku users have been peppered with news that they will lose YouTube this week. That reporting has been terribly problematic and lacking in specifics. For the record, there is a rift between YouTube and Roku that involves how Roku shares data with YouTube as well as (according to Roku) a disagreement as to how YouTube…
Lots of people when they are choosing a device look for reasons to choose one item over another and in many cases it is hard to find concrete differences between them. Because all streaming devices and smart TVs for that matter are designed to help users stream content the average observer and even many retail…
Roku is going to further confuse the consumer market with its latest commercials and it doesn’t have to. A new ad shows a couple discussing streaming on their TV when the woman states that the TV is a “Roku TV”. Why is this a mistake? Because despite how it is marketed, Roku does not make…
Okay Roku users, I’m going to encourage you to calm down. This week the Internet has been abuzz concerning the latest threat to the universe, otherwise known as the possibility that Amazon and Roku are going to come to an impasse that would somehow remove the Amazon video app from Roku devices. I can understand…
Here we are again. YouTube is in another staring contest with a streaming platform. Last time it was Amazon and the Fire TV platform. Amazon slipped right past the problem via the introduction of Fire TV compatible browsers that squashed the threat of not having the app and eventually YouTUbe was again available on Fire…
