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Amazon will stop selling Nest products once its current stock of them runs out:
The impending disappearance of Nest from Amazon marks just the latest development in the acrimonious, anti-consumer feud between Amazon and Google. Nest was absorbed back into Google last month after spending three years as a standalone Alphabet subsidiary. (Google tipped off Nest that Amazon had decided against selling its latest hardware while the companies were still separate.) Amazon has steadfastly refused to sell some Google-branded products like the Google Home voice assistant speaker and the company's Pixel smartphones. In December, the online retailer said it would restart sales of the Chromecast streaming device, but it's been three months and you still can't buy it. Last summer, Amazon launched a Prime Video app for Android, but has yet to add support for streaming its content with a Chromecast.
For its part in this ugly falling out, Google has removed YouTube from Amazon's Fire TV streaming products and the Echo Show / Spot, claiming that Amazon has violated its terms of service with those implementations of the YouTube app. There were once signs that the companies were mending the scorched bridge between them, but that doesn't seem to be the case any longer.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by curunir_wolf on Monday March 05 2018, @09:26PM
To be fair, what you are talking about ("store brands") is really just a retailer offering a generic version of a commodity alongside a national or regional brand name of the same commodity.
Those Google and Amazon products are something entirely different. They are each offering a platform or ecosystem consumers can use to access their services and content as well as services and content of different companies. You can't ignore Amazon as a retailer or Google as an Internet services company the same way you can drive a couple of miles to a different grocery store. Well, not easily anyway.
You're right that there's no way the kind of regulation the GP suggested would fly. But these tech behemoths are really getting out of control.
I am a crackpot