Amazon to stop selling Apple and Google streaming devices

This could raise flags with regulators as Amazon decides to stop selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast on its site by October 29^th. Their reason? From the looks of it, to get more people to use their Prime Video service. According to Amazon, “Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion.”

But are they breaching any anti-trust laws? By stopping sale of items by their competitors, are they stifling competition? Do they have that big of a market to make this move illegal? Let’s see if this raises any flags. For now, you still have until the end of the month to shop for these items on Amazon.

Source: Slate

Google Drive wants to back up your photos in iOS

Google Drive for iOS gets an update to make it easier to back up your iPhone photos. The latest update from lets you back up and share photos and videos from the iOS Photos app. You can now use Drive as an extension for the share sheet in iOS. It’s still a manual process to upload photos to Drive but it’s much easier. The update also now lets you open, edit, and save back to Google Drive using other apps.

Source: The Next Web | Download: iTunes App Store (Free)

Google Photos for Android gets Chromecast support

Google has finally rolled out the new features the company announced for its Photos app on Android. The app now supports Chromecast, meaning you can show off those vacation photos and videos using your TV. It’s now also possible for some users to start uploading and subscribing to one album. You can also share animations directly from Photos to WhatsApp. And once you get the new Nexus 5X or Nexus 6P, it’ll let you adjust the speed of slow-motion videos you shoot. Google plans to bring these features to iOS and web in the future.

Source: Engadget | Download: Google Play Store (Free)

Top Score Baseball brings "Moneyball" to amateur teams

With Major League Baseball postseason fever in full effect, the mobile app Score More Baseball has been officially rebranded to Top Score Baseball to better reflect its main value prop. Top Score Baseball simplifies the scoring of baseball games and brings the power of “Moneyball” to amateur, rec, and youth baseball teams, using the same performance-based approach now used by over a dozen Major League Baseball teams.

Season one of Score More Baseball saw over 8,500 downloads, with over 2,000 coaches signing up and registering their teams. The big surprise? For all the talk of which smartphones are the true app platforms, BlackBerry users led the way, accounting for over two thirds of application downloads. Android was second, and iOS was a distant third.

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