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It's not only a software thing; Amazon has been accused (or sued?) for anti-competitive behavior by creating "Amazon Essentials" version of lots of very popular

by mikece 7y ago

It's not only a software thing; Amazon has been accused (or sued?) for anti-competitive behavior by creating "Amazon Essentials" version of lots of very popular items being sold through their site, even advertising the Amazon branded item right on the original product's detail page.

thrwaway69 7y ago
Yeah. I think platforms should become neutral after certain adoption. It gives the company lot of unnecessary leverage. Apple can block off APIs to their apps only, google can do it, microsoft can do it, Amazon can (though they don't have as big of a share of online retail market but still enough).
- tomnipotent 7y ago
  > become neutral after certain adoption No business should be required to let other businesses screw it over because "neutrality". There really is no such as a "neutral" when it comes to this anyway.
wbl 7y ago
You have been to a grocery store and seen the store brands? Same thing.
- eropple 7y ago
  Most of those store brands are made by the same companies making their brands. They're getting paid for them, too.
okusername 7y ago
Same happens in brick and mortar stores. Im germany a drug store chain had a decade lomg partnership with an organic products / plant milk producer who did a lot to buold the market, and when the market actually got more mainstream and profitbale, they kicked them out and replaced them their new house line of organic products.
- thrwaway69 7y ago
  You are right but it's the scale that is worrying. Tech is accessible everywhere. What it does is set certain expectations for users in different countries. In india, most people won't pay for apps and they are not profitable to run many services which big companies do for free. Maybe it's good in the short term. For consumers, certainly but I wonder if tech will become stagnated like other industries with monopolistic control.

by mikece 7y ago

thrwaway69 7y ago

Yeah. I think platforms should become neutral after certain adoption. It gives the company lot of unnecessary leverage. Apple can block off APIs to their apps only, google can do it, microsoft can do it, Amazon can (though they don't have as big of a share of online retail market but still enough).

tomnipotent 7y ago
> become neutral after certain adoption No business should be required to let other businesses screw it over because "neutrality". There really is no such as a "neutral" when it comes to this anyway.

wbl 7y ago

You have been to a grocery store and seen the store brands? Same thing.

eropple 7y ago
Most of those store brands are made by the same companies making their brands. They're getting paid for them, too.

okusername 7y ago

Same happens in brick and mortar stores. Im germany a drug store chain had a decade lomg partnership with an organic products / plant milk producer who did a lot to buold the market, and when the market actually got more mainstream and profitbale, they kicked them out and replaced them their new house line of organic products.

thrwaway69 7y ago
You are right but it's the scale that is worrying. Tech is accessible everywhere. What it does is set certain expectations for users in different countries. In india, most people won't pay for apps and they are not profitable to run many services which big companies do for free. Maybe it's good in the short term. For consumers, certainly but I wonder if tech will become stagnated like other industries with monopolistic control.