Amazon Is a Monopoly

Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by xmprt on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:20AM (#20622941)

All of those scenarios are where there was a terms of service violation. When Google or Apple decide to ban their competition for no reason other than it being competition, it's anti-competitive.

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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by scarface74 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:52AM (#20623737)

So since Apple sells third party hardware at Apple.com, should they be forced to sell Dells?

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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by bduerst on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @10:27AM (#20625435)

Apple stores only sells accessories to their manufactured products, and isn't a retail platform.

If Apple opened stores that sold a wide range a goods, including from other sellers, and then banned Dell, then yes, your hypothetical would be anticompetitive.

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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by scarface74 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:21AM (#20625926)

Then why aren’t apps an “accessory” to the iPhone where Apple can decide not to allow certain apps - including hypothetically Amazon? Do the console makers have a right to deny certain games on their platform?

Does a physical store have to sell every product imaginable?

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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by scarface74 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:39PM (#20631815)

When you buy an app from the App Store. Apple claims the entire price of the app as revenue, pays out the developer and gives the developer a 1099 at the end of the year. My relationship is no more with the third party app developer when I buy an app from the App Store than it is if I buy a third party accessory from the Apple Store or if I buy something from Walmart.

There is no difference.

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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by erikpukinskis on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @11:47PM (#20631845)

Easy, Amazon just adds “no devices may be sold that compete with ours” to their TOS.

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