http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42365354
Quote:Amazon has started selling Google's Chromecast devices two years after it originally removed them from its store.
Amazon said it removed them to end customer confusion about which services were available on which device.
Analysts said it was because they let people watch services that competed with Amazon's Prime Video.
Google retaliated by blocking access to YouTube on some Amazon gadgets and threatening further restrictions.
In September, Google stopped YouTube playing on the Amazon Echo Show. It said it took the step because the way Amazon got the video-sharing service working on the device was "broken".
It also threatened to stop Amazon Fire TV sticks getting access to YouTube from January 2018.
Awesome !
i want to see more of this. it is true capitalism at work.
if companys can not do battle in the market place then what value is an open market ?
(Dec 15, 2017 01:59 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]Awesome ! i want to see more of this. it is true capitalism at work. if companys can not do battle in the market place then what value is an open market ?
Perish the thought that such vile purity of free enterprise should ever lead to cheaper internet in the US.
Telecom companies appear to split up territory to avoid competition
https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/832143...ompetition
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(Dec 21, 2017 07:43 PM)C C Wrote: [ -> ] (Dec 15, 2017 01:59 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: [ -> ]Awesome ! i want to see more of this. it is true capitalism at work. if companys can not do battle in the market place then what value is an open market ?
Perish the thought that such vile purity of free enterprise should ever lead to cheaper internet in the US.
Telecom companies appear to split up territory to avoid competition
https://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/832143...ompetition
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duopoly with raqueteering with price fixing.
raqueteering = illegal
price fixing = illegal
duopoly, not illegal however anti trust laws ligitimise predatory advantage to attack a monopoly but not a duopoly.
my interpretation is that the door-knock price for putting an anti-trust suit against a company is probably controlled by the US government, thus considering the wide spread sabotage being flailed around as beaurocratic control there is no one left to seek to regulate the market to enable equal access and fairness of competition.
all sits very nicely with the corporate tax cut.
i am expecting the corporate tax cut to undermine the value of the US dollar as it creates middle class inflation.
whats next ? private ownership of all the footpaths & roads ?