Amazon kicking Apple Tv, Chromecast out of store

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by GERGE

Have you ever heard something called antitrust laws?

When a company has a monopoly and uses that to stifle competition, it breaches antitrust laws. Amazon's market share is the greatest among online retailers, but there are many arguments for and against whether or not it is a monopoly. And denying to sell competitor's devices are stifling competition for a retail store. We are not talking about an Amazon Store that only sells Amazon pruducts but a retail store with market dominancy.

Also monopoly here refers to a concept, a retail store with %50 percent market share may well count as a monopoly for the purposes of this law.

I don't care enough to research USA law to offer example cases here, but if you think I am wrong, then you think I am wrong. I don't care either way.

You will not be able to find any example in the US that classifies something over 50% marketshare as a monopoly, unless they also have over 90% market share. Amazon is not a monopoly when it comes to ebooks or anything else.

And monopoly most definitaley does not refer to a concept alone - not in the US by the letter of the law.

[Apache]

Laws should be the same for everyone regardless size. If you make laws different for people and companies based on their size you get stupid rulings like the decision to not prosecute a company because it was too large. Who decides if they are too large? And they could have prosecuted the people who made the decisions to break the law. OK I am done ranting now. Back to our regularly scheduled topic.
Apache