Amazon Ends Sale of Apple and Google Devices
Published on October 6, 2015
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Hello WA friends,
Here is a recent update of Amazon store.
Amazon is forbidding its vast army of third-party merchants from selling the Apple and Google devices after October 29.
Amazon is going to stop selling devices from Apple and Google that compete with its own streaming media players, escalating the entertainment battle between the major tech companies.
Apple TV and Google's Chromecast are popular items in Amazon's electronic store. But the devices are in a stiff competition for market share with Amazon's Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, which were introduced in 2014. The Fire Stick delivers Amazon's rapidly expanding video offerings to its customers while Apple TV and Google's Chromecast do not. The stick is crucial to Amazon's ambitions to move from being just a retailer to a multifaceted provider of everything virtual and physical.
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Amazon Prime, which began as a frequent shipping service, now has tens of millions of subscribers. In an effort to build out its ecosystem, Prime's video and music components are becoming as important as quick package delivery.
Apple, Google and Amazon once made very different products. Apple made hardware like computers and smartphones, Google ran a Web search behemoth and Amazon was an online retailer. But the three companies' business models are converging with a vengeance, with each offering a combination of hardware, as well as software and entertainment like music and video.
The companies have clashed in the past. In 2012, Apple pushed Google's YouTube app off its line-up of built-in apps on iPhones and iPads, for example. That same year, Apple also installed its own maps app on the gadgets instead of using Google Maps.
As a store, Amazon likes to stress that it is a place where people can find and discover virtually anything they want to buy online. It does not want customers to go elsewhere.
How will this action of Amazon affects us?
As some of us are Amazon affiliates and if you're promoting some Apple or Google electronic products like Apple TV and Google Chromecast in your website, after October 29, you'll need again to change your Amazon link with another affiliate program selling Apple and Google devices.
Hope this will serve as a guide for some of us who are Amazon affiliates. Thank you for reading.
Ferdie
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