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Why Amazon is banning sales of Apple and Google streaming media boxes

Last year, Amazon’s Fire TV, which can use a wired connection, and the Fire TV Stick, which is wireless, became the third-highest selling set-top video streaming boxes, behind offerings by Roku and Google, a report by the market research firm Parks Associates found in August.

From the article "Why Amazon is banning sales of Apple and Google streaming media boxes" by Max Lewontin.

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