Apple TV is to finally support an app for Amazon’s Prime Video.
The deal was announced by Apple CEO Tim Cook during the company’s annual developer conference on Monday.
The near throwaway line ends years of stalemate between the two companies. Amazon, which has its own streaming media devices under the Fire TV brand, ceased the sale of Apple TV in 2015.
Cook would only say that Amazon Prime will appear later in the year and will be available on the Apple TV 4 boxes.
Suggestions of a softening in relations first emerged last month.
There was no on stage mention of the new tvOS at all, though later developers were able to get their first glimpse of the operating system, which will be available to members of Apple’s Developer program.
Apple gave a greater fanfare to the HomePod, a wireless speaker that will compete with Amazon’s Alexa devices, and Google Home. It’s designed to work with Apple Music subscriptions and features a custom array of seven beam-forming tweeters that provide pure high frequency acoustics
HomePod will be available starting in December, initially in Australia, the UK and the US.
