[karaterobot]

If it's true they colluded to remove ads from Apple pages on Amazon, both companies deserve what they get. Why do it sneakily? Why not have a page somewhere on Amazon that says "hey, if you want us to remove ads from your product listings, pay us [10x the total lifetime amount we expect to get in ad revenue from running ads on the page] per product page". Most companies wouldn't do it, so it wouldn't change Amazon's model much at all. Meanwhile, Apple could afford it trivially. While sleazy, it would be a completely legal offering that would never come back to bite them in the butt.

[ribosometronome]

It sounds like you are saying that businesses should only be able to sell services that they publicly advertise with prices. For example, if Coca Cola wanted to have a product placement idk the eventual Jok3r movie, would Warner Brothers would need to advertise that service somewhere on the website? Would you see Coca Cola's advertising department calling WB and being "yo, what do we have to do to get poison ivy to have a fridge full of Coca Cola?" be sneaky?

[heisenbit]

There are businesses and them there are businesses which have a market dominating position. The latter have to be careful to avoid striking preferential deals only available to them furthering their dominant positin.

[zmgsabst]

Coca-Cola and large movie studios sound more like the latter than the former, though.

[Supermancho]

> If it's true they colluded to remove ads from Apple pages on Amazon

Amazon is not the only company to do this. Not sure how reducing ads is problematic. Amazon doesn't have to show ads it doesn't want to.

[pbhjpbhj]

Reducing ads isn't a problem, but showing ads that are for counterfeits alongside most companies is, especially when you could remove the ads counterfeits but only over that as a service for Apple Computers.

At that point they're choosing to profit off counterfeits. Which we know they do, but here they're effectively admitting it.

[Supermancho]

I don't believe that's the situation.

> Apple's latest products directly sold by Amazon have a much cleaner page layout on Amazon with no ads or recommendations until the very bottom of the page

This is not an agreement to "remove junk ads". AMZ is not showing ads for a large part of the page when an Apple product is the focus...probably in relevant searches? but certainly on a product display page. Again, this is the case for Apple products on other vendor sites, as well.