As big as Amazon is, aren't they using their dominant market position to suppress competition? When I was at Motorola, they used to teach us to be very careful about that as it might violate anti-trust laws.
On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Keefe John <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > >
