I fully expected to see a thread overrun by commentary on how this near-monopoly was going to be bad thing. But most seem to not think this will be a problem, and it's not even April 1st yet.
It's like the MTD buy-out of most lawn equipment manufacturing companies. Look at the part's manuals or whites, cub cadet, Troy-Bilt, bolens, yard man - the biggest difference between mowers, snow blowers, etc. is paint color! That's what you'll be getting in a couple of years with all those brands - same guts, same engineers, and different nameplates.
Maybe one brand or the other with have a few different capacitors or capacitors that were placed there just to give the audio review blogs will wax on and on about.