Amazon buys Twitch

[Eel O'Brian]

Change thread title to "Andrex buys cyanide capsule"

[fistfulofmetal]

http://www.twitch.tv/p/thankyou

yeah, weird.

[Takao]

remember fire tv
what happened to that thing
it did come out, right?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

firetv is cool dont ahte on it

[Your Stalker]

standrex, post if you're still alive

[Himu]

Standrex

[Howard Alan Treesong]

remember fire tv
what happened to that thing
it did come out, right?

for a moment I thought this was a joke about the Fire phone, which also came out

[AdmiralViscen]

I think this is worse than youtube, no?

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

forgive me for asking a stupid question, but why?

Amazon has a streaming service that they want to boost, but this still doesn't make any sense to me.  Will KFC buy Goodyear Tires tomorrow?

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

once again, don't make sense.

Amazon keeps chasing one money hole after another.  Ramping up spending on what is possibly the most saturated, competitive, and fragmented entertainment market doesn't make sense, especially for a company that already has an outsize/dependent role in retail sales of said market and isn't exactly hugely profitable to begin with.

but then again, Oculus and Facebook still doesn't make sense to me.  Good thing I'm not a hedge fund manager, I'd totally whiff that shit.

[Great Rumbler]

Shareholders are getting antsy because Amazon isn't producing record growth like it was a few quarters ago, they gotta make a big splash and pull down some of that dollar bill.

[Himu]

Will KFC buy Goodyear Tires tomorrow?

[Joe Molotov]

forgive me for asking a stupid question, but why?

Amazon has a streaming service that they want to boost, but this still doesn't make any sense to me.  Will KFC buy Goodyear Tires tomorrow?

If I could get a 12-piece bucket while getting my tires rotated, that would be be perfect.

[Eel O'Brian]

It does make sense in a "we want to be Apple and Google rolled into one" way. They have a music service, which is their iTunes. They have an app store. They have a streaming service, which is their Netflix. They didn't have a YouTube-type infrastructure, so they bought one.

[hampster]

forgive me for asking a stupid question, but why?

Amazon seems to like owning the places people talk about / learn about their entertainment. IMDB, Goodreads, and now twitch