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>Amazon's ability to prioritize the customer over themselves

Can you give some examples of times when Amazon HASN'T put the desires of the vast majority of customers first?

There are many examples. Here is an obvious one - when Amazon stopped selling Apple TVs to punish Apple. Hard to see how this is good for consumers.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/10/01/amazon_blocks...

If it convinced any Amazon customers to buy a Roku instead of an AppleTV, then it was most definitely good for the customer [rimshot].

A counter-argument is that fewer options helps consumers actually choose something that's good enough rather than debating and hand-wringing over their choice. Costco is pretty good at this.

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