Amazon banning the sale of Apple TV and Chromecast - Polidicks

[QUOTE=GordonZombie;48802325]Doesn't that fall under anti-competitive laws?[/QUOTE] Only if they are a dominant seller of videoplayers. Which they probably aren't yet.

[QUOTE=Map in a box;48806571]then said companies that hold a quarter of the worlds marketshare should be split up[/QUOTE] Except that forcing a split of Amazon would more than likely simply complicate things (splitting different types of products into multiple websites) and make online shopping worse for customers. Amazon as it is offers (generally) very competitive pricing and excellent support. Many of their competitors fail to do either. I have no problem with Amazon refusing to carry either of these products. The only reason people have any problem with it is because Amazon is a large retailer that sells more than their own products. It's not like you'd expect Apple to sell competing products (that aren't compatible with their services). You can just as easily go to Best Buy or one of countless other retailers and purchase the same products. It's simply that you'd rather Amazon stock them as they offer a better service.

Amazon keeps trying to make all their shit happen. It's not gonna happen; nobody likes you stupid phones, nobody likes your weird in-home siri knockoff, and nobody wants your stupid media center. You sell cheap books and made a good kindle (though the kindle fire is [i]okay[/i] at best) [editline]4th October 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=elfbarf;48810072]Except that forcing a split of Amazon would more than likely simply complicate things (splitting different types of products into multiple websites) and make online shopping worse for customers. Amazon as it is offers (generally) very competitive pricing and excellent support. Many of their competitors fail to do either. I have no problem with Amazon refusing to carry either of these products. The only reason people have any problem with it is because Amazon is a large retailer that sells more than their own products. It's not like you'd expect Apple to sell competing products (that aren't compatible with their services). You can just as easily go to Best Buy or one of countless other retailers and purchase the same products. It's simply that you'd rather Amazon stock them as they offer a better service.[/QUOTE] What amazon does is the textbook definition of anti-competitive. They make certain sectors of their site really cheap and subsidize it with the killing they're making in other sectors. This kills their competition because they can't make money competing with amazon. In fact amazon's "slow burning" business model is so dedicated to crushing competition that it took them over a decade to turn a profit

I don't get how this is anticompetitive but an Apple store refusing to sell Microsoft computers isn't.

You can buy the chromecast elsewhere, jeez its not that big a deal.

[QUOTE=geel9;48830661]I don't get how this is anticompetitive but an Apple store refusing to sell Microsoft computers isn't.[/QUOTE] well i mean apple stores exclusively sell apple products because they're apple stores amazon sell pretty much anything but now pull something out of their shelves because it competes with something they're doing in a separate market even so i don't really see the big deal, just buy it somewhere else

[QUOTE=gangleider;48831964]well i mean apple stores exclusively sell apple products because they're apple stores amazon sell pretty much anything but now pull something out of their shelves because it competes with something they're doing in a separate market even so i don't really see the big deal, just buy it somewhere else[/QUOTE] There's a difference between exclusively selling your products and refusing to sell products because they compete with you. I'm not complaining but this is how it'll probably be seen from a legal perspective.