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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by hedora on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:07PM (#16511936)
No reasonable court would conclude Amazon has a dominant position in online retail. /s
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by coretx on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:45PM (#16512133)
Dominant in legalize has a slightly different meaning. Especially when often akward or even weird jurisprudence comes into play. You could for example wager that if Amazon's position in market A is strong enough to dictate a dominant position in market B; this would make them a "dominant actor" in market A per definition and intent of the legislators. As such, any court could reasonably conclude that Amazon needs to be sodomized.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by Dylan16807 on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:43PM (#16512123)
Less than half, and if you look at "retail" it's a single digit.

Not usually enough to get hit on monopoly measures!

Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by coretx on Saturday March 03, 2018 @05:47PM (#16512157)
It's fairly easy to breach ( international ) competition law and suffer the consequences without even coming remotely close to monopoly talk.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by Dylan16807 on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:01PM (#16513191)
Sure, but you can do that without being dominant at all! When it specifically comes to the issue of dominance, I'm not sure if Amazon is really there.
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by coretx on Saturday March 03, 2018 @11:17PM (#16513239)
Dominant or not dominant is not the main issue; whether or not Amazon is abusing it's market power is. For a fact we know that force is exerted by Amazon from a different market resulting in a strategical advantage for Amazon and a heap of deadweight loss; something that ought to be illegal in all shapes and forms when created intentionally & mostly is. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadweight_loss )
Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices by throwawaylalala on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:41AM (#16514683)
IIRC 40% is enough in most markets to have “monopoly” charges stick. I know, pretty low bar..