>I still don't quite understand how they do it. Why maintain and improve your existing services when you can get credit for launching a new shiny thing? Steve

>I still don't quite understand how they do it. Why maintain and improve your existing services when you can get credit for launching a new shiny thing? Steve Yegge called out this tendency in his (in)famous platforms rant [1]: They prioritize launching early over everything else, including retention and engineering discipline and a bunch of other stuff that turns out to matter in the long run. So even though it's given them some competitive advantages in the marketplace, it's created enough other problems to make it something less than a slam-dunk. Amazon's "speed and agility" comes at the cost of not updating anything, ever. If you want new functionality, you'll have to integrate a new service. [1]: https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX