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Re:Why Netflix Chose Amazon’s Cloud as Their Computing Platform by parenthesis on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @06:48PM (#2006275)
> What happens when Amazon launches their competing streaming video service?

Amazon already happily takes a small cut from competitors' businesses: from the many third party sellers who sell through Amazon's retail sites.

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Re:Why Netflix Chose Amazon’s Cloud as Their Computing Platform by bdb on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @07:00PM (#2006325)
Businesses where Amazon is already dominant, or at least well-established, yes. Amazon also consistently promotes their own first-party sales above third-party sales. Many of those third-party sellers also have other outlets for selling their product.

I'm not sure your analogy stands up.

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