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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by basch on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:42AM (#19338461)
I agree. But if we are going to split up the store platform and the store brands, now youre going to have to split up Target, Walmart etc. Anyone besides Ikea who sells their own store brand and runs as a platform for others to sell their products.

Any grocery store can do the same thing amazon is doing, use data about sales to push clones and store brands of popular products. What percent of products at Target are store brand now? Target is like an Ikea with 3rd party products sprinkled in it, which is what Amazon wants to become.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by apcragg on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:52AM (#19338590)
The difference is that none of those examples dominate their market. The problem isn't "Amazon uses their platform to promote their own products" it's "Amazon uses their market dominance to promote their own products which might not otherwise be competitive"
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by notatoad on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:01PM (#19339393)
dominating the market and holding a monopoly are not the same thing. Amazon has a dominant position in many markets, but are not a monopoly on any market unless you re-define the market to be amazon's portion of it.

Does amazon have a retail monopoly? absolutely not. An online retail monopoly? still no. An online book selling monopoly? okay, now we're getting closer but still not a monopoly. A kindle books monopoly? yeah, by definition.

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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by basch on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:08PM (#19339476)
there is much more to anti-trust than just monopolies. theres a whole slew of anti competitive behavior.
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Re:Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Am... by basch on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:24AM (#19338976)
I agree, I just think its Wal-marts playbook, and to single Amazon out is more political than do-goodery. In Wal-marts case its floorspace, in Amazon's its eshelf and datacenter storage.
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