Amazon Will Resume Selling Apple TV, Google's Chromecast (axios.com)

Ina Fried, reporting for Axios: Amazon confirmed Thursday that it will again sell the Apple TV set-top box and Google Chromecast dongle. The company had stopped selling the devices amid disputes with both giants. There's a lot of frenemy stuff at play here, with Google, Apple and Amazon all selling their own streaming devices, but also looking to offer their own services on one another's devices. Apple doesn't offer its programing on rival devices, but does move a lot of hardware through Amazon.

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Re:So Amazon blinked?

[MightyYar]

Retail (until you get into the absurdly high-end) is by it's nature low-margin - I don't think Amazon or its investors have a problem with that. They have been brilliant in not only growing vertically, but as you point out horizontally when the market is lucrative. I expect them to make a similar move in the logistics space eventually.

Anyway, never expect Amazon to have sharply different prices than the best brick-and-mortar competition. But generally they are within a few percent, and it's all centrally located. It's a huge PITA to go to Target for a few things, and then Walmart for stuff that is lower-priced there. For dedicated coupon-clippers, this won't satisfy - but for a lot of shoppers it is sufficient to buy from Amazon unless the prices are way off. Chrome plugins that check your Amazon price against those elsewhere also cover your back...