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The correct solution is an anti-trust investigation into Amazon. Not carrying or supporting competitors TV boxes is a clear restraint of trade when Amazon Prime

The correct solution is an anti-trust investigation into Amazon. Not carrying or supporting competitors TV boxes is a clear restraint of trade when Amazon Prime gives you a near monopoly on e-commerce for a huge block of customers.

RhodesianHunter 9y ago
I really wouldn't use the word "monopoly" to describe it when anyone with the ability to buy these things from Amazon can just as easily buy them from Apple or Google's online stores.
- Alterlife 9y ago
  Wouldn't the same logic have applied to Microsoft when they delivered IE pre-installed? If MS was abusing it's market dominance then, so is Amazon now.
  - rkangel 9y ago
    I'm not sure it is. You start off in a position where you don't have the device, and you either go to website A or website B to buy it (leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account). With the IE case, you start off in a position where you already have a browser and you have to perform an extra step to get a different one.
    - bdhess 9y ago
      > leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account This ignores the most salient part of the whole scenario.
  - syshum 9y ago
    The Key difference was MS was an effective Monopoly in their market with something like 90+% of the market share Amazon is big, but still is only about 36-40% of the e-commerice market share, and far far less of the over all retail Market Share which is still dominated by Wal-Mart
  - talmand 9y ago
    The problems Microsoft had at the time went way beyond having IE already installed with Windows. Besides, without IE already installed the casual computer user would have a more difficult time downloading a competing browser.
pyronik 9y ago
It pisses me off that Amazon doesn't support chromecast, but is it really their responsibility just because google wants them to implement their feature that they do?
Noos 9y ago
...you can just buy it from Apple or google's sites, best buy, newegg, etc. Amazon is not a monopoly by any means necessary.
- Spare_account 9y ago
  Completely off topic, so I apologise in advance, but you have an extra word on the end of that sentence. "necessary" isn't... er... necessary there.
chrisper 9y ago
So does an Apple store have to carry Chromecast and fire TV?

RhodesianHunter 9y ago

I really wouldn't use the word "monopoly" to describe it when anyone with the ability to buy these things from Amazon can just as easily buy them from Apple or Google's online stores.

Alterlife 9y ago
Wouldn't the same logic have applied to Microsoft when they delivered IE pre-installed? If MS was abusing it's market dominance then, so is Amazon now.
- rkangel 9y ago
  I'm not sure it is. You start off in a position where you don't have the device, and you either go to website A or website B to buy it (leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account). With the IE case, you start off in a position where you already have a browser and you have to perform an extra step to get a different one.
  - bdhess 9y ago
    > leaving aside details where you already may have an Amazon account This ignores the most salient part of the whole scenario.
- syshum 9y ago
  The Key difference was MS was an effective Monopoly in their market with something like 90+% of the market share Amazon is big, but still is only about 36-40% of the e-commerice market share, and far far less of the over all retail Market Share which is still dominated by Wal-Mart
- talmand 9y ago
  The problems Microsoft had at the time went way beyond having IE already installed with Windows. Besides, without IE already installed the casual computer user would have a more difficult time downloading a competing browser.

pyronik 9y ago

It pisses me off that Amazon doesn't support chromecast, but is it really their responsibility just because google wants them to implement their feature that they do?

Noos 9y ago

...you can just buy it from Apple or google's sites, best buy, newegg, etc. Amazon is not a monopoly by any means necessary.

Spare_account 9y ago
Completely off topic, so I apologise in advance, but you have an extra word on the end of that sentence. "necessary" isn't... er... necessary there.

chrisper 9y ago

So does an Apple store have to carry Chromecast and fire TV?