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Amazon's seeming lack of support for Fire Stick and Fling in their own software ecosystem is astounding and frustrating at the same time. Why hasn't the Fling SDK been integrated into Amazon's own apps? It is a major shortcoming of the Fire Stick vs. Chromecast that users can't use their smartphone as a 2nd screen and control media from my mobile devices without being within visual range of a television connected to the Fire Stick. I have speakers on my back patio, but I can't start or control music from outside because Fire Remote merely emulates a remote and the Amazon Music app doesn't cast to the Fire Stick device. Amazon Video is a little different, in that it's always used in conjunction with a television, however why shouldn't it be able to operate as a 2nd screen, showing the X-Ray metadata on a mobile device instead of overlaying it on top of the video content. It's would arguably be preferable to search for and select content on a mobile device and start it on the Fire Stick from there (especially if you're keeping kids entertained and want direct influence/control over their selections).