Is Amazon Making a Sub-$300 Console To Play Mobile Games? 76
itwbennett writes "Yesterday, a story suggesting that Amazon was planning to launch a sub-$300 Android game console made the rounds. A $300 box to play mobile games on your TV? ITworld's Peter Smith doesn't buy it. 'If Amazon is working on some kind of set-top box, it's going to be about streaming,' says Smith. 'Music, video, and games. Remember back in November when Amazon announced G2, a new AWS instance type designed for streaming GPU intensive tasks like games? Combine Amazon's G2 cloud servers and an Amazon set top box for console-like game streaming, plus supporting Android and/or iOS games (possibly the latter would also be streamed), and of course support for Amazon Video and MP3, and we're getting closer to something that may be worth $300.'"
And the colllusion continues... (Score:2, Informative)
This is another indication of how eager the tech industry is to get in on the same monetization model that Rovio was just implicated in with the Snowden documents--data for dollars.
Rovio was just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone is trying to get involved in a "goldrush" of funds that have infused the industry with a serious lack of morality.
As I pointed out in a couple of posts recently ( http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... [slashdot.org] ), it is the mobile analytics market that the NSA is targeting for their data on as many people as possible. Those analytics providers are doing what the NSA cannot do themselves legally--gather data. Analytics providers do the gathering, and the NSA either steals or buys the data. It's as simple as that folks.
The really dirty secret is that pretty much every company out there with an internet presence and a mobile presence (an app) is complicit in this gathering of data, and they all know it. Both The New York Times and The Guardian use the exact same analytics firm that Rovio uses in their mobile game "Angry Birds", yet they are the ones that published articles based on Edward Snowden documents outlining NSA activity that targeted mobile analytics. Hypocrites.
Just to give you an idea of just how big this iceberg is, dig deep in the following webpages--they outline, by connections, a web of investors and customers that are perpetrating a global auction of our privacy.
Amazon -- Seattle, Wa.
https://developer.amazon.com/s... [amazon.com]
Jaspersoft -- San Francisco, CA.
https://www.jaspersoft.com/mob... [jaspersoft.com]
Google -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.google.com/analytic... [google.com]
Flurry -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.flurry.com/flurry-a... [flurry.com]
Localytics -- Boston, MA.
http://www.localytics.com/ [localytics.com]
Countly -- LIBYA!!....serious wtf here. All contact info is for Libyan addresses.
https://count.ly/products/feat... [count.ly]
Konitgent -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.kontagent.com/compa... [kontagent.com]
Webtrends -- Portland, OR.
http://webtrends.com/solutions... [webtrends.com]
Bango -- London, UK
http://bango.com/corporate/ [bango.com]
Apsalar -- San Francisco, CA.
https://apsalar.com/ [apsalar.com]
Piwik -- London, UK
http://piwik.org/what-is-piwik... [piwik.org]
Mobilytics (Mobivity) -- Chandler, AZ.
http://www.mobilytics.net/ [mobilytics.net]
Adobe -- San Jose, CA.
http://www.adobe.com/solutions... [adobe.com]
Openwave Mobility -- Redwood City, CA.
http://owmobility.com/about-us [owmobility.com]
Mixpanel -- San Francisco, CA.
https://mixpanel.com/ [mixpanel.com]
Urban Airship -- San Francisco/London
http://urbanairship.com/produc... [urbanairship.com]
Cognizant -- Teaneck, NJ.
http://www.cognizant.com/enter... [cognizant.com]
Amethon -- Sydney, AU
http://www.amethon.com/ [amethon.com]
The ring to rule them all, if you believe the developers..
Segment.io -- San Francisco, CA.
https://segment.io/mobile [segment.io]
For the inner workings, see linked Whitepaper. A good list of other miscreants is included on that
Re:And the colllusion continues... (Score:4, Informative)
Yes.