[JonnyNova]

Their monopoly is more abstract: they have a monopoly on convenience. They ensured their product selection covers a wide variety of common objects that most people end up buying and streamlined their checkout process (they had the patent for 1 click checkout for 20 years) to reduce as much friction as possible to ensure that carts would not be abandoned.

[dantheman]

If the complaint is they had an unfair advantage because of software patents, then it's easy -- end software patents.

[mathperson]

I'm frustrated that is patentable