HBO Max on Amazon Firestick

For a long time you could get HBO on your Amazon firestick with no issues. Admittedly, though it did work, the firestick applications are not that great and they often do leave a little something to be desired. Crappy apps aside, you might be surprised to find out that there isn’t even a crappy app for you to get HBO max on your firestick.

You would think that a company like HBO would want to make their platforms accessible to everyone regardless of the hardware they are using. The more easily you make it to access your stuff the more people will use it. It’s quite basic and logical to me, but for some reason these guys don’t have HBO max for the firestick.

We got around this limitation by installing HBO Max on my PlayStation 4, but it’s not an ideal way for me to watch the channel as I’d rather just watch it on my fire stick like uhm, EVERYTHING ELSE I WATCH!

This reminds me of how BlackBerry dropped the ball big time with blackberry messenger by making it only accessible on their devices for a very long time. Back then everyone loved Blackberry messenger and they had the potential to corner that market even with users who were not on their platforms. However, due to their desire for exclusivity they opened up the door for other programs such as WhatsApp, line, WeChat and all the other competitors out there to come take a slice of that pie. By the time they realized that they should make the app accessible to all of us, no one cared anymore. We had all moved on to one of the other apps.

This isn’t exactly the same but I can’t help but wonder why these people don’t make their stuff easily accessible to everyone. As it stands you cannot get HBO max on your Firestick so you’re gonna have to find another way to make that work. In fact, I think I read that the HBO app may not work soon either, but I’m not sure about that as of this writing.