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Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast
Hot Hardware notes that Amazon has stopped selling two pieces of hardware -- Apple TV and Google's Chromecast -- that compete with Amazon's own streaming business. (They promised to drop them a while back; not everyone though they actually would.) From the article: While some have likened this move to being anti-competitive, it's hard to grasp whether the legal system would agree. Amazon's defense is that since these devices don't support Prime Video, it doesn't want to sell products to its customers and have them assume that they will."
I'd strongly suggest that there's a large iff of anti-trust about this move. Leveraging a strong market position in one sector to gain in another?
If you want an anti-trust lawsuit, usually you need political connections, and better political connections than your opponent. And Amazon keeps up on their payments, to both parties.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
prime is the worst streaming service. For example I decided to be bob ross for halloween. so I thought i would watch a bunch of episodes to work on my mannerisms
prime offered a few episodes from each season for free, and than wanted to charge 2.99 per episode for the rest
for those who arent in america bob ross was a painter on PBS (you know that free channel?) and literally all the episodes are avail for free in a number of legit places, youtube for one.
i have yet to find a single time on my roku where prime was the best option in anything
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Actually PBS asserts copyright on everything it owns, and they make a LOT of money off of DVD and streaming licenses. Don't assume that nonprofit means that its owners don't make a profit.
It's not your wonderland imaginary version of capitalism that has never happened anywhere in the world, no, but it's what capitalism always results in. Deny the empirical evidence all you want, but unfettered capitalism has always lead to monopolies, lock-in and massive abuses of power.