Re: Except
It may not be double dipping.
It could be a license agreement to handle the tech, and then a variable component based on the number of units shipped using the tech.
Let me give you a different example of 'hyper-competitiveness'.
You have a storefront on Amazon and use them to fulfill your orders. (Or not.)
Amazon has the data of all transactions. So if you sell a widget and there are several other sellers of the same widget, Amazon can see who is selling what widgets and their sales prices. Now Amazon wants to get into the widget game. They too become a seller of widgets. Since they order the companies based on price... and they know all of the prices, they can do dynamic pricing so to undercut you and others capturing a percentage of the market. They are at an advantage because they can offer dynamic pricing since they own the storefront platform.
Unfair? Sure. They see what sells on the platform... then starts to sell capturing a low risk profit because you and the other widget sellers are doing all of the marketing for them.
Now some would call that illegal and call for Amazon to be broken up.
Others will call it hyper competitive and say that if you don't like it... go somewhere else.
Or put up with it.
Which camp do you fall in?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
