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Just last night I was talking with a friend about how good Amazon is compared to any other of the tech companies. They weren’t blamed for the elections, they ha
by Top19 9y ago
Just last night I was talking with a friend about how good Amazon is compared to any other of the tech companies. They weren’t blamed for the elections, they haven’t gotten mixed up with terrorists, their “personalized” recommendations are sometimes so cutely wrong its actually pleasant to see.
I mean they still probably have too much power, but more in the sense of Walmart in the 1990’s. Amazon might be a monopoly, but at least they don’t undermine democracy (yet). Google as I am typing this is undermining the electorate.
That being said, my praise of Amazon is really more praise of Jeff Bezos. If he dies, or has a change of heart, we could be in trouble.
Also these partnerships mean nothing. I remember at Oracle an exec telling us how many “partnerships” he announced with Apple/Samsung/whatever at SAP. They whole point of the partnership wasn’t to “collaborate”, it was to release a press release. What do people think happens in the end?? That the most brilliant engineers of each company fly to a secret location, get into a room, and then diagram (“ideate!”) a solution on a whiteboard like it’s an episode of Numbers or Law and Order: Criminal Intent??
- busyant 9y ago> They weren’t blamed for the elections Trump has taken some shots at Amazon (primarily b/c Bezos owns WaPo), so they have been "in the mix" w/ respect to the current political climate. > That being said, my praise of Amazon is really more praise of Jeff Bezos. If he dies, or has a change of heart, we could be in trouble. Also, if you read some other threads on HN, there is a strong sentiment that Bezos is "shaking down" North American cities to determine which one is most willing to bend to his will for a secondary headquarters It's not all rainbows and ponies in AMZN land.
- stcredzero 9y agoI just got an image in my head of a GOOG vs. AMZN animated rainbows and ponies battle.
- alpha_squared 9y ago> Also, if you read some other threads on HN, there is a strong sentiment that Bezos is "shaking down" North American cities to determine which one is most willing to bend to his will for a secondary headquarters There's also some sentiment in the Seattle investor/business community that Amazon is using the opportunity as a threat to the city. That it's willing to expand somewhere else if the city doesn't become more friendly towards Amazon's demands/preferences. This certainly lines up well with the idea that Amazon announced a HQ2 without actually naming a city, leaving the media buzz and PR to influence the city of Seattle. Though these are all rumblings I've heard and should be taken with a grain of salt.
- gtsteve 9y ago> Google as I am typing this is undermining the electorate. [citation needed]
- bitmapbrother 9y ago>Just last night I was talking with a friend about how good Amazon is compared to any other of the tech companies. It would seem you missed the part about their studio chief being suspended for sexual harassment.