Companies Should Be as Mad About Amazon's Ban as Shoppers | WIRED

Companies Should Be as Mad About Amazon's Ban as Shoppers | WIRED

SUBSCRIBE *Welp* This ferocious arachnid is basically death wrapped in mystery wrd.cm/1YUr8is Slide: 1 / of 1 . Caption: An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA. Drew Kelly for WIRED Date of Publication: 10.01.15. 6:12 pm Companies Should Be as Mad About Amazon's Ban as Shoppers An Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA. Drew Kelly for WIRED Yes, American consumers should be pissed. Amazon runs the most popular e-commerce site on the Internet—by an astronomically large margin—and as Bloomberg reported earlier today, the company is now refusing to sell video streaming gadgets from Apple and Google. Amazon, you see, is looking for a competitive edge. The Seattle-based tech giant sells its own devices for streaming internet video onto your television set—the Fire TV and the Fire TV Stick—and these devices dovetail with an internet video service called Amazon Prime. Devices from Apple and Google—the Apple TV and the Google Chromecast—aren't just alternatives to Amazon's Fire TV gadgets.

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