The biggest differences between the new Apple TV and Amazon's Fire TV
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About a week after Apple took the wraps off the long awaited refreshed Apple TV, Amazon unveiled a new version of its Fire TV, the powerful set top box that it first introduced last year.
The products are very similar: both connect to your TV and allow you to stream content from services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO, and Spotify. Both also have app stores, so developers can create apps and games for them. And both can be used for gaming - the remote controls have sensors in them so they can be used as game controllers.
They also both harness the power of digital personal assistants and allow you to use your voice to do more than just search. Apple's new Apple TV uses Siri, which you may know from your iPhone or iPad, while Amazon's Fire TV uses the lesser-known Alexa, a digital personal assistant that comes on the Echo, a connected speaker from Amazon.
But there are also some huge differences between them.
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