Review: The Amazon Fire TV Is Kind Of A Mess – ReadWrite

Perhaps still a major disruptor for Roku (although you can also watch Amazon Instant Video on Roku devices)

"For the same price, you might as well buy an Apple TV right now, or, better yet, wait until Apple releases its major update to the Apple TV within the next few months. Apple just announced that its annual Worldwide Developer Conference will take place in June, and there are lots of indications that Apple will use that opportunity to announce its fourth-generation TV product.

That's the difference here. Fire TV might become an excellent offering in time, but Apple is still three generations ahead, and ready to take the next step. And then there's Google's competitively-priced, über-popular Chromecast and its army of similarly-cheap clones. Unless Amazon acts quickly by adding new content and updating its software to fix its search issues, Fire TV might become obsolete sooner than we think."

Review: The Amazon Fire TV Is Kind Of A Mess – ReadWrite