According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is teaming with online retailers to cook up a standardised way to ship things to customers super fast (for a fee, of course). Sound familiar? Yeah, Google’s going after Amazon Prime.
Amazon recently added their streaming movie service to Amazon Prime, and it seems like a pretty great deal. Macworld takes a look at both Prime and Netflix streaming to determine which is your best bet right now.
After talk of a movie-streaming service from Amazon has been going on for years, the Financial Times has today reported that, yes, they are about to launch a Netflix-defying service. Supposedly Amazon Prime members will be able to access it (just another brilliant reason to sign up to Prime membership, in my opinion), though it’s not known if there’ll be any fees associated with streaming movies after the initial annual $US79 sum is paid.
TechCrunch has run a dubious-sounding piece, quoting sources as saying Amazon’s working on a scheme to give each Amazon Prime user a free Kindle. With an annual membership to Prime costing $US79 for extra-fast shipping, they’d be losing $US120 from the retail value of the first-gen Kindle.
