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What if it's not an independent service, merely a perk of the actual service? Where do we draw the line? Should Apple be asked to spin off iCloud because email
by rtsil 4y ago
What if it's not an independent service, merely a perk of the actual service?
Where do we draw the line? Should Apple be asked to spin off iCloud because email, photos, documents should all be independent services?
Note that neither Prime Video nor iCloud are monopolies, which would bring different considerations into the matter.
- orra 4y agoPrime Video isn't a monopoly, but Amazon clearly has Significant Market Power when it comes to retail. They're anti-competitively vertically bundling Prime Video along with retail delivery.
- runako 4y agoTheir largest competitor is Walmart. Walmart's bundle includes video, fuel discounts, from-store delivery, long-haul delivery. Further, the Walmart.com e-commerce site is subsidized by the Walmart bricks & mortar operation. Businesses are allowed to do more than one thing. I'm not sure when it became popular to try to strip down businesses to a single SKU each, and it's not obvious to me that consumers (or anyone) benefits from pursuit of that goal.
- conductr 4y agoCould make a case that local retail is anticompetitive by not incorporating film production cost into a gallon of milk. Or maybe they’re anticompetitive because they have physical stores and do not need to bear the burden of labor/vehicle/fuel to deliver each order. I think it’s a bit absurd to call in the regulators. Retail is hyper competitive and part of that is they all choose these odd little perks/differentiators to entice customer loyalty. It’s a net positive to the consumer.