The end of dodgy Firesticks ?

[Kingdom Bhoy]

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... Amazon has launched a new Fire TV Stick. · The device could spell the end of so-called 'dodgy' Firesticks. · But what has the tech giant changed ...

 

[Stormo]

Just don’t buy a new one

 

[Mr Redknapp]

I think they could eradicate it completely and it won't force people to subscribe to the scandalous subscription fees

 

[bobster999]

Nothing is unhackable. It'll only be a matter of time before they find a way around it

 

[Cee Jay]

I’ve “friends” who if these “ dodgy fire sticks “ ended tomorrow wouldn’t in a million years start subscribing.

Not a chance on earth

 

[Makcem Crihs]

Android boxes will just make a return if needed

 

[Roadhouse]

Just buy a nvidia shield instead.

 

[I'm Spartacus]

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... Amazon has launched a new Fire TV Stick. · The device could spell the end of so-called 'dodgy' Firesticks. · But what has the tech giant changed ...

I wouldn’t even waste my money on a dodgy fire stick to get sky back. I got rid of it cos I was paying a bastard fortune to sit and watch adverts. Robbing bastards.

 

[ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK]

Android boxes will just make a return if needed

This! You can buy an Android 'firestick' looking device on Amazon for as little as £20.

All this will do is reduce the sale of Firesticks as people move to another Android device in whatever form.

I've got Prime and my Fire Cube does OK for now but in time I may update to summit newer and don't care what Amazon do to it as long as it works as I use my Fire Cube now.

 

[Town End Farmer Giles]

Haven't amazon said they arent stopping support for current gen devices? By the time they do there'll be a way round their bespoke OS, or if not, as someone else has said, buy a different android device.

 

[GillytheGilf]

I’ve “friends” who if these “ dodgy fire sticks “ ended tomorrow wouldn’t in a million years start subscribing.

Not a chance on earth

Aye me

 

[mini-x2]

They're the main reason people buy them so they'd be shooting themselves in the foot

 

[Captain Slackbladder]

Hasn't the horse long since bolted in the same way they tried to clamp down on music downloading....?

They're the main reason people buy them so they'd be shooting themselves in the foot

This as well...

 

[tunstallhill]

My mate gets better ones from America and just unlocks them. Nowt to do with Amazon or fire sticks . And cheaper

 

[Definitely Maybe]

They're only 'dodgy' because people install perfectly legal apps on them that are used to illegal stream. And they're only popular because they're cheap and reliable and easy to set up. You don't need to perform some kind of technological witchcraft to set them up, you can get the same apps on various smart TVs and other Android boxes and devices.

They've become synonymous with IPTV so if they stopped you from installing the apps on them people would just stop buying them. But it wouldn't stop IPTV, another device would just become popular instead. It used to be Android boxes 10 years ago but Firesticks were cheaper so they took off.

 

[MackemTonyG]

Just buy a nvidia shield instead.

Lovely bit of kit

 

[Space Hopper]

The inventor of the fire stick has died.

At his funeral they gently lowered the coffin, then pulled it back up, turned it the other way, then lowered it again.

 

[Father Jack Hackett]

Smart tellys don’t need a firestick anyway. It’s only to convert them into a smart one. None story unless Sony and LG etc are also bothered, which they won’t be.

 

[Will e]

Will dboxes make a comeback?

There will be more apps for IPTV to do the same thing, non of the manufacturers will stop those.

 

[GravesendLad]

Bring back the dodgy video geezer with his open boot and long suffering wife in the passenger seat..