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Amazon Will Soon Stop Selling Google's 'Nest' Smart Home Products (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes The Verge:
Nest products won't be sold by Amazon.com any longer once current stock runs out, according to a report from Business Insider. Amazon last year declined to offer some of Nest's newer products like the Nest Cam IQ and latest-generation smart thermostat. After weeks of simply ignoring the products and being unresponsive to Nest, Amazon informed the company of its decision by phone late in the year and said the directive "came from the top," something Nest took to mean it had been handed down by CEO Jeff Bezos. There has been no direct confirmation of this, however.
As a result, Nest has decided to halt further restocks at Amazon once remaining product inventory is exhausted. It's unclear whether third-party sellers will continue selling Nest gadgets, but Amazon itself will not. In removing itself from Amazon, Nest's reasoning is that the powerful retailer should be selling its entire product family or nothing at all.
The Verge calls it a "dumb, anti-consumer feud."
As a result, Nest has decided to halt further restocks at Amazon once remaining product inventory is exhausted. It's unclear whether third-party sellers will continue selling Nest gadgets, but Amazon itself will not. In removing itself from Amazon, Nest's reasoning is that the powerful retailer should be selling its entire product family or nothing at all.
The Verge calls it a "dumb, anti-consumer feud."
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Is it just because Nest's business plan competes with the plan for their own Echo devices, or is there something they've found out about Nest that we should all know? (I mean something other than the blatant disregard for customer privacy and safety of which we were already aware.)
Was it a shakedown? Did slashdot pay any ransom?
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Amazon do have a habit of making knock-offs of their 3rd-party sellers' best-selling products and selling them cheaper under their own brand. Combine that knock-off strategy with their Echo strategy and you can put me down as "much more than suspicious."
Why not Amazon?
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So theyâ(TM)re removing a competing product line.
Does anyone think it will be better for us if Amazon ultimately crushes the google? Or if the google crushes Amazon? Or if Apple swallows both of them?
I think they should adjust the tax system in favor of increased choice and more freedom. The corporate taxes on profits should be progressive based on market share. You can even divide it up based on each part of the business, but the basic idea that any company that becomes too dominant would find it advantageous and effectively MORE profitable to divide itself into smaller pieces that are REALLY competing with each other. Division is easier to do with IP-based companies that can start with identical copies of the IP and equally divided ownership of such assets as licensing fees from the patents.
Don't think of it as a penalty for success. Think of it as a strong encouragement to reproduce the good ideas so they can grow and evolve in new directions.
I actually prefer to use the old example of MS as an easy way to explain how it could work. Let's say you want at least 5 real competitors in the notebook OS market, but the market only has 3 effective competitors (Windows, MacOS, and lumped Linux), with Windows on top. Imagine that Microsoft was divided into three companies, each with a copy of the OS and 1/3 of the assets. Now there are 5 competitors and the three Windows-based companies are free to evolve in any directions they favor, with real choice and freedom for the customers. The main difference is that the Windows standard would also become truly open. (Shareholders would come out ahead, too, since the real competition would actually encourage the pie to become bigger.)
Me? If I had to buy Windows, I'd buy the most secure flavor.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
maybe related to the ring purchase by amazon a few days ago.nest and ring will compete in the video doorbell business (and maybe in the smart thermostat business as well)
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I think Google and Amazon’s feud could jeopardize Net Neutrality.
While it’s one thing to want to avoid selling one another’s competing products, when you drag access to media content from Amazon Video and Google’s YouTube into the fray isn't that dangerously close to two network providers imposing restrictions over their respective content based on one’s network connection?
Device sales should not impose restrictions on media access any more than your ISP connection should.
Highly unlikely. Pence will pardon him.
Many of his cronies will, though.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaany day now.
I wonder if Amazon could one day be declared a monopoly and be forced to sell certain products like this.
Note: I don't own any Nest or Alexa products and I don't want any. So I don't really care what Amazon does with Nest.
As far as I'm concerned, anything that slows the adoption of privacy-stealing, security-hole-ridden IOT gear like Nest, (and Alexa for that matter), is ultimately smart and pro-consumer. Putting this kind of thing in the hands of the average non-tech-savvy person is kind of like emptying a box of knives on a nursery-school floor. Somebody's gonna get hurt, and the damage won't necessarily be limited to the kids who actually pick up the knives and start playing with them.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
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I recently tried to buy a JBL speaker with Google Home features on Amazon but couldn't find it. Then I realized it's because Amazon didn't want me to buy a product that competes with Alexa! Very annoying!! I'm looking for alternatives to Amazon. As Amazon hides more and more competitors products people will start looking elsewhere. Amazing is shooting themselves in the foot for little reason or gain.
...from the manufacturers' websites. Many electronics companies now sell their goods directly, online thereby cutting out middle-men like Amazon. An added bonus is that the manufacturers often include the cost of post and packaging and returns in the price. I've recently bought stuff online from Apple, Sennheiser, and Bose, and have been very happy with their delivery times and returns policies.
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in my local store, even ...so not seeing the problem, here.
Google Store sells eight products. Amazon is, among other things, an massive on-line retailer selling millions of products---most of which are not their own product.
A more apt analogy would be if Google decided to stop offering search hits for Amazon.com.
This is just one more offensive deed that shows Amazon's true nature---and it's not good. Just add it to them being one of the largest purveyors of counterfeit goods. Any state AG with an Amazon location should be investigating Amazon.