Boxee Pulls the Plug on its PC Client to Focus on CE Platform

By Karla Robinson
February 1, 2012

“Want to run Boxee on your PC or Mac?” asks GigaOM. “Then hurry up; Boxee is removing all copies of its PC-based app from its servers by the end of the day Tuesday to fully concentrate on the Boxee Box.”
The company announced it is removing its PC-based app from its servers and will no longer support the most recent PC version.
“We believe the future of TV will be driven by devices such as the Boxee Box, Connected TVs/Blu-rays and 2nd screen devices such as tablets and phones,” wrote Andrew Kippen, Boxee’s VP of marketing. “While there are still many users who have computers connected to their TVs, we believe this use case is likely to decline as users find better alternatives.”
“As for Boxee, cutting its losses and concentrating on its CE platform should help the company to keep up with an emerging market that pits it against much bigger players like Google and its Google TV platform,” comments GigaOM.

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