* Amazon uses third-party seller data to copy the site's most popular products, an antitrust report by the House Judiciary Committee alleged on Wednesday.
* Former Amazon sellers told an antitrust subcommittee the company released new products almost identical to their own and "killed" their sales.
* Amazon has denied accusations of this behavior in the past. "We have a policy against using seller-specific data to aid our private-label business," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in July.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-uses-seller-data-copy...
Windows was artificially crippled by the DoJ ruling and not including a PDF reader by default. I, for one, like it when more is built into the OS by default.
How is this different than Walmart doing the same thing with their house brand? Or a sporting goods store, or any other store for that matter?
You pretty much have to be on their store to sell something, which means you give them access to your sales and customers. Which is a concept that is absolutely wild in any normal healthy competitive landscape.
Then they'll monitor and if you manage to actually be successful, 3 months later there's an Amazon Basics version of your product.
It's so incredible to me how these practices get no push-back. There used to be a time where in the case of Windows, people were wondering if its fair that they ship it with a calculator program. Now you can just use your massive platform and extend in every possible direction, seize secondary markets, nobody seems to care.