Apple's Amazon product pages have a minimalistic, ad-free design due to a 2018 agreement, drawing mixed reactions from industry competitors and highlighting the complexities of digital ad negotiations.
You left out the part where searching for Apple products was returning results of counterfeit products because Amazon loves their scummy cheap junk. Apple got sick of this and told Amazon that if they wanted to be a reseller of actual Apple merchandise, they would need to agree to clean things up or Apple would stop selling on Amazon.
There’s nothing stopping Samsung and other brands from demanding the same thing. And they should.
I wonder if Apple has more pull on Amazon’s marketplace. Apple might have a bigger slice of the pie and fewer alternatives in the counties that Amazon operates in / dominates in.
You left out the part where searching for Apple products was returning results of counterfeit products because Amazon loves their scummy cheap junk. Apple got sick of this and told Amazon that if they wanted to be a reseller of actual Apple merchandise, they would need to agree to clean things up or Apple would stop selling on Amazon.
There’s nothing stopping Samsung and other brands from demanding the same thing. And they should.
I read this as “Amazon knowingly profits from selling ads for counterfeit products”.
I wonder if Apple has more pull on Amazon’s marketplace. Apple might have a bigger slice of the pie and fewer alternatives in the counties that Amazon operates in / dominates in.