[mike]

I think we've gone beyond being sheep..

 

This type of thinking is one reason I don't like Amazon. I bought a fireTV on a recommendation and that it was a droid system so I could put more apps on it. It wasn't any less expensive than a Roku.

 

Yet they shove amazon crap down your throat. To the point you would think the box would be much less expensive than it is.

 

Then they do things like not allow you to run apps that will hide their advertising. For instance I had a skin app that had a nice usable customizable screen that would only show the apps you want to see in the order I want to see them. Amazon went into my machine and deleted this app and others one day. The sole reason was it hid their advertising.

 

On top of this nonsense if you want to put any apps on your phone that would communicate with the firetv (like a mouse/keyboard app) you have to download their Amazon shopping app that spams your phone. If you delete this app the other apps won't work. To add insult to injury, you have to buy the apps w/o being able to demo them. The couple I tried ran like crap.

 

Yet, so many people love Amazon.