As profits collapse, it is becoming "every corporation for itself".

Check out the latest in pre-collapse news: Amazon is mandating that Google Chromecast and Apple TV dongles be removed from Amazon.com.  That is indeed scary.  Amazon demands that only its products in this category be sold because the other guys don't support Amazon's prime streaming service and Amazon fears that selling their products would "confuse its customers".

Personally I am confused about how Amazon thinks that this protectionist move is in any way good for it.  This is doing nothing more than making it more difficult and more expensive for consumers to find and purchase the products that they want at good prices.   I personally own a chromecast and it has nothing to do with Google TV.  I just wanted to take advantage of the nice changing wallpaper that it supports along while displaying current time in the lower corner.  I use it on a monitor that I mounted in a custom enclosure I made for it my master bath.

Yes, I am a geek but the point is that this uses Chromecast and I never had any intention of using it with Amazon services.  I am in no way "confused" by my decision to do this and I do resent Amazon making arbitrary decisions about what will be sold on Amazon.com based on what it perceives to be in its best interest instead of of mine.

Amazon must be really desperate to be pulling this crap but I do expect more corporate infighting and dirty tricks going forward.  The attitude of "can't we all just get along" only prevails when there is plenty of easy money sloshing around in the economy.  Now that it's getting tighter I expect the organized criminal cartel known as the military industrial complex to increasingly come apart at the seams.