Amazon shut out Google 's smart home product "Nest", smart home fighting fierce fiercely

Alphabet's smart home device makerNestProducts will be "lockout" from Amazon, one of the competitors. Amazon own smart home deviceEchoThe series has been deployed, and there is a fierce hegemonic fight that can be said as "user absent".

Amazon will soon stop selling all Nest products - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/3/17074844/amazon-stopping-nest-sales

From around late 2017 in Amazon, Nest's latest security camera "Nest Cam IQ"It was said that smart home equipment such as thermostat was not displayed on the product page. Although Nest contacts Amazon in response to this situation, there was no response of Amazon, but from the Amazon at the end of 2017, this situation is caused by "This is getting off the top" from Amazon It seems that the answer is returned. Although it is not certainly supported, Nest said from this answer that he received it naturally as "an order from CEO Jeff Bezos."

In response to this situation, Nest has decided to raise all items sold at Amazon. At that time, although the sale is continued for items that are in stock at Amazon's fulfillment center, sales stop when the item is out of stock. However, as this decision relates to the items sold by the Amazon body, the treatment of products sold by third parties through the market place is still uncertain.

Because Google and Amazon are each in a relationship to offer competing products and services, this kind of sparks are often scattered. In the past Google had also stopped offering YouTube for Amazon's Fire TV and Echo.

Google accelerates the confrontation between the two companies to forcibly stop offering YouTube on Amazon's Fire TV and Echo - GIGAZINE


After that, it seemed temporarily that relations were improved, but in the latter half of January 2018, there was a situation where it seemed that Google temporarily blocked the provision of YouTube service again.

Google and Amazon battles are ongoing, YouTube temporarily blocks access from Fire TV - GIGAZINE


The battle between them is showing a seemingly intense appearance exceeding the former video standard conflict "VHS vs. Beta", and there is now a situation in which the point of view of "user's interests" is left behind in that situation It is. "If you want Nest, you only have to find other shops that you are selling", but because of the conflicting structure you can only see as hostility gets exposed you will get the attention from the world even more.

Please note that Amazon can no longer buy Google's TV dongle "Chromecast", but if it is a counterfeit product it can be purchased around $ 25 (about 2600 yen)It has become a hot topic.

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