Why do so many of the FireTV apps work perfectly on AndroidTV but aren't in the store?

by savageotter

u/chewza and I have been trying a bunch of apps and almost all of the fireTV apps work perfectly on the shield.

Why would the developers who clearly also have Playstore accounts not put them on android TV?

pawdog

Only thing I could ever guess is these companies have exclusivity agreements with Amazon.

Ryantrange

List of apps 🤔

chubbybator

Fire tv pulls it's apps from Amazon store. Amazon might have different requirements to get listed?

Ausernameneeded

Do you have to pay for it to be listed? If so, FireTV has a much larger user base than AndroidTV.

It probably is exclusivity, like others mentioned, but maybe money/resources into the larger user base (either fees for adding it or porting it from FireTV's version of Android OS to true AndroidTV OS)

nextapp

What's the best way to Port over a fire TV app to Nvidia shield tv" boomerang app"

feclar

analogy.... Netflix works great, why are not all movies on it?