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badmonk said:

StrangeDays said:

Can a vendor setup their goods in the Amazon.com store, then use their own alternate checkout & payment processing system? Or do they have to use the mechanisms provided by Amazon, and any backend rules established by Amazon?

Agree with this analogy, why does the real on-line shopping monopoly of Amazon not get the same degree of attention as an App Store duopoly?  I constantly mystified why this gets a pass— the real third party sellers are constantly been placed at multiple disadvantages on the Amazon marketplace.  Is it just a failure of regulators imagination?  Too much navel-gazing with their phones too think beyond their little brains?

I know people will rebut that Amazon has competition from Walmart etc etc but really they don’t…nothing comes close in North America for the expanse of their reach.

Oh my this argument is old and tireless, Do the same rules apply to the MAC? the Mac has an App Store and the WEB where you can buy the same app for the SAME platform  and pay a different vendor. I can buy Word on the MAC APP STORE or I can buy it from Microsoft direct. I get the same app - the same software, I just had a choice who I bought it from. Does this work for the iPhone? NO - I can only go through the App Store on the iPhone to get a particular app at what ever apple says can be done on that store. The same does not apply to the Mac.

I don't know why people will not admit that. If we get another store a user can choose where they want to buy from.  Choice is competition. Funny how back in the day everyone was up in arms over Internet explorer being bundled. But when another company does this - it's all fine. Sure we had linux back then too, but the issue was only over Microsoft. hmmm. 

Hmmm, how did those RAY-BANS do? unless i am seriously mistaken or live in another dimension, all META hardware is DOA. 

sdw2001 said:

Well, they better do something.  Their ratings are in the toilet.  The reason is CNN is a left wing mouthpiece pretending to be a news network (which it used to be).  MSNBC, by comparison, is pretty clear about its quest for a liberal audience.  FNC's primetime lineup is strongly to the right, whereas its news coverage probably leans right.  The point is they are both mostly transparent about who they are and what they're doing.  CNN is just an utter embarrassment.  

rob53 said:

omasou said:

In college, I sat in a marketing class that my roommate was taking b/c an executive from Xerox was presenting. In that meeting he said and I am paraphrasing b/c it has bee so long but I always remember the gist of it... "we NEVER mention the competition in our ads...b/c we don't have to.

How true. Mentioning a competitor shows that you can't stand on your own product's strengths. 

While this is TRUE when you are on top, because the iPhone is the defacto standard, you (being the competition) have to call them out to get any recognition to be noticed. Otherwise, you will still be ignored.

hahahaha, hideous and 2K for it? hahahahaha ok sure.