Let me know when I can pick up an Amazon Fire product at an Apple Store.
Again missing the point that Apple sells products for Apple devices and only Apple devices. Whereas Amazon is a general retailer.
If Amazon only sold Amazon products and items designed to work with Amazon products it would be a different story altogether. But they don't, they sell everything that doesn't offer a direct threat to their own devices and services. It actually speaks volumes about just how confident Amazon are that people would choose one of their Fire devices over a competing product, not very confident at all it would seem.
So a store can't decide what it wants to sell? I think you have some other issue you aren't disclosing and simply don't like Amazon.
Absolutely, everyone should have complete and total control over what they do and do not sell. As I've already said, I really couldn't care less if Amazon wants to sell any particular Apple, Google or any other companies products or not. That has no affect on anyone but Amazon, so by all means let them do what they like, I won't argue with it one single bit.
When they dictate what other companies get to sell though, that's a bit unfair to the little guys. That's what ruffles my feathers. I've been an independent retailer in the past and while I did ok, I know just how hard it can be to turn a profit at times. The last thing you need is some idiot company with deep pockets forcing you to remove your inventory from a storefront. Especially when they claimed to have an open marketplace when you started selling with them.
Read through Amazons terms for selling, I have. Look at what they say you can and cannot sell, read through all of the claimed benefits. They make it sound really good, in fact, excellent. Nowhere however does it tell you that at any point they will prevent you from selling any perfectly legal item, which just happens to be in competition with an Amazon product and for no other actual reason than it competes with an Amazon product. I'm sure you wouldn't be so happy about it if you were one of the people affected by the new Amazon policy.
You are right though I do have a problem with Amazon, now, because of what they are doing to independent sellers. I never did before. I was an Amazon customer from the beginning, when they sold books. Ive owned several Kindles and a couple of Fire TV's. I'd likely still have a Kindle now if it wasn't for Kobo bringing out a better product. Oh, wait that can't possibly be true can it, after all you seem to think I buy Apple products and only Apple products. How silly of me. I'll just go and burn the massive stack of non-Apple electrical and electronic devices I have so that I can conform to your twisted thinking.
I have spent a not inconsiderable amount of money with Amazon over the years and I'll happily start throwing some money their way again, if they ever reverse course and allow smaller companies to sell whichever products they need to sell to make a profit.
We could argue about it forever, it won't make a difference, you're clearly more than a bit pro-Amazon, whereas these days I'm less keen on them. Neither of us will change our opinion. I'm just more supportive of small independent companies, who need to make profits far more than Amazon does, than you are. That's perfectly fine, we're all different and by god thats how it should be, it would be a terrible world if we were all the same.
Which would make them completely uncompetitive of course.
Netflix doesn't pay 30%. Apple gave some of the streaming providers a
sweetheart deal. Taking 30% for content sold through an app (not the app itself) on an ongoing basis is outrageous and Apple knows it.
Of course they do, but it's nowhere near 30%.
You're right, Amazon doesn't take 30% in many cases it's much lower and I applaud them for that. But it does however go as high as 45% when an Amazon product is involved. Amazon also take a 30% cut of all the profits made from apps sold through their App Store, now who does that sound like? Oh yeah, every current company with an App Store.
