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Will Amazon Web TV Take Out Roku and Apple TV?

March 02, 2014

Amazon is said to be moments away from releasing its own device to compete against a growing field of competitors including Apple TV, Netgear NeoTV, Google Chromecast, Roku, Sony, and others.

According to Parks Associates, Roku enjoys the pole position in video streamers with about a 37% market share, followed by No. 2 Apple TV at 24%. Parks also predicts the number of devices will almost double to around 330 million by 2017.

From the article, "Will Amazon Web TV Take Out Roku and Apple TV?" by Robert Weinstein.

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