Amazon buying MX Player is a masterstroke! 🙌🙌
Here's why it wants a 3rd streaming platform. Let’s start from the start 👇
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Basics:
-> MX was developed by Korea’s J2 Interactive to play downloaded videos on smartphones
-> By 2018, it had 175m
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With MX Player's strong hold in smaller cities and towns, Amazon can actually tap into a market that had been largely untouched by other streaming giants, other than stage and all.
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Amazon buying MX Player is a masterstroke! 🙌🙌
Here's why it wants a 3rd streaming platform. Let’s start from the start 👇
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