Without knowing the details and veracity of the claims, I think there is a real danger with big companies like Amazon using their weight to take others' innovat

Without knowing the details and veracity of the claims, I think there is a real danger with big companies like Amazon using their weight to take others' innovations and reap the rewards for themselves. Now that it's a megacorp, Amazon's employees are no longer the presumably highly talented people that got it started. That is, their newer successes are not a result of disproportionate talent or hard work that would make those successes deserved. Instead it's just another big company that has big capital. And all a big company with big capital needs to do is keep an eye on early successes elsewhere to get into the game, throw lots of resources at the problem, leverage their big mature sales and marketing channels, and see the Dollars roll in. This is not what a healthy market is meant to reward.