> "One idea was radio waves, but that was dismissed early on, says Taylor. “If you were in an apartment building, you might start changing the channel on the TV in the next room as well as your own.”
This reminded me how as kids in the 90s, the remote unlock button for our parents' car would set off our neighbor's car alarm if you were too close to them.
It's more akin to a used car lot deciding to manufacture cars, and removing Ford & Chevys from their lot. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but it is interesting that they only removed those two items and not Rokus and other streaming options.
When can we regulate this .... and break this company into 4 companies, that compete with each other :) I bet 3 will sell Ford and Chevy's on their display.
Yeah, the huge vertically integrated corporations are starting to seriously limit competition in several economic markets. Good for their profits, bad for pretty much everyone else. It's like Weyland-Yutani in the making.
The issue is that Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world and they are refusing to carry items that compete with their other business units.
Your example misses the point. People reasonably expect Amazon to carry electronics. Amazon is abusing their position as the largest retailer in world to suppress competition. That's illegal.
But with your example, Ford does not control 90% of car dealers in the US, so they are not in a position of power. Now, if Ford owned 90% of car mechanics in the US and they refused to repair Chevys, that would be abusing their position of power to suppress competition.
Or Microsoft refusing to allow installation of competitive browsers. The line is in market reach, anti-competitive legislation was inacted due to such abuses by a powerful player.
I saw it on the Github readme