CNET:
Amazon has signed a deal to expand the selection of Apple products on its sites worldwide.
The world’s largest e-commerce company said Friday it’ll soon start selling more Apple products directly and have access to Apple’s latest devices, including the new iPad Pro, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and Apple Watch Series 4, as well as Apple’s lineup of Beats headphones. The Amazon-Apple deal encompasses the US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and India, with the new products hitting Amazon sites in the coming weeks.
Only Apple-authorized resellers will now be allowed to sell Apple and Beats products on Amazon’s marketplace.
This is great news for those of us who don’t live near any other Apple resellers.
Within a month, 50% of the listings will be for counterfeits.
I avoid Amazon like the plague. When it actually is the only place to shop, I use hazmat precautions.
No ??, not Apple’s native land… ?
This is precisely to deal with counterfeits when you *have* to be an authorized Apple reseller in order to sell Apple products on Amazon. Amazon was already filled with counterfeit Apple products, especially cables, chargers, and Earpods, I was stumped Apple didn’t do a deal with Amazon to limit this sooner.
of course, there’s another side to the story:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjexb5/amazon-is-kicking-all-unauthorized-apple-refurbishers-off-the-site
It’s unclear to me whether this agreement, as an ostensible attempt to eliminate counterfeits and knockoffs, was initiated by Apple or Amazon. I’d be impressed if it was the latter.