When one company is said to be doing something, it’s usually not too long before another company, probably even a competitor, gets rumored to be doing the same thing.
While Apple has just recently announced a brand new set-top box with the Apple TV 4, the rumors regarding the company’s plans to launch an actual TV streaming service refuse to go away. In August, for instance, the latest rumor suggested that while Apple was still hard at work on finalizing the deals necessary to launch the service, it had been delayed until some time in 2016.
Now, enter Amazon. According to a report recently published by Bloomberg, and citing “people familiar with the matter,” the online retail giant that also specializes in streaming content, like TV shows, is considering jumping int the live TV streaming market. The report indicates that the talks, right now, are simply preliminary, and that Amazon could decide not to do it after all.
As far as who Amazon has spoken with up until now, that includes CBS Corp. and NBCUniversal from Comcast. If Amazon could nab those two gigantic networks, that would certainly be a feather in the company’s cap moving forward.
It looks like the online live TV streaming market could heat up soon, especially if Amazon is looking to launch around the same time that Apple’s own oft-rumored service is said to see the light of day.
If you had to pick, would you go with Amazon or Apple when it comes to live TV streaming packages?
[via Bloomberg]
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