Apple to Announce Amazon Prime Video App for Apple TV at WWDC [Report]

Apple and Amazon have reached an agreement which will bring the Amazon Prime Video app to the Apple TV and the Apple TV back to Amazon.com, reports BuzzFeed.

Sources in position to know tell BuzzFeed News that Amazon's Prime video app — long absent from Apple TV — is indeed headed to Apple's diminutive set-top box. Apple plans to announce Amazon Prime video's impending arrive to the Apple TV App Store during the keynote at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 5 in San Jose, CA. A source familiar with the companies' thinking say the app is expected to go live this summer, but cautioned that the hard launch date might change. Amazon had previously declined to even submit a Prime Video app for inclusion in Apple's Apple TV App Store, despite Apple's "all are welcome" proclamations.

As part of the deal Amazon will start selling the Apple TV again; however, BuzzFeed wasn't able to determine the exact date this will happen.


Both Apple and Amazon declined to comment.

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