It is a free market. Amazon can do whatever they want.
On 10/4/2015 3:30 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
What do folks make of Amazon going so far as to prohibit even third
party sellers from selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast on their site?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/2/9439281/amazon-ban-apple-tv-chromecast-why
Apparently Amazon refuses to sell these new devices because they don’t
support the Amazon Prime streaming service.
I ask from two perspectives:
1) No doubt a lot of people here buy stuff from Amazon, including for
your business. Does this alter your loyalty as an Amazon customer at all?
2) Seems to me this demonstrates the market power of companies like
Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. The sort of thing the government seems to
think we ISPs would do, but not those nice folks in Silicon Valley.
And of course Google is an ISP, but no one seems to suspect Google
Fiber would ever use their market power in an anti-competitive way.
(note that Google is now Alphabet and changed their motto from "don't
be evil" to "do the right thing") What is the end game for these
giant corporations like Amazon and Google, and will there have to be
antitrust action? Will Google Fiber manage to stay neutral and not
favor other parts of Google? What if Google bought Netflix?
