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What a monster. I wonder whether AMZN reaches a point where they crush the competition at all levels and become a glitch in this somewhat functional current ca
by jxub 9y ago
What a monster.
I wonder whether AMZN reaches a point where they crush the competition at all levels and become a glitch in this somewhat functional current capitalist system, marking the start of a monopoly blob system without a name yet. Then I remember, their approach now seems to be all about building internal interfaces and reusing them with the customer in some way (see eg. AWS).
It isn't about destruction, more like symbiosis.
But they may still morph the economy into something different and that change is scary.
- Clubber 9y agoWalmart already crushed all the small / indy / specialty shops around the country, now Amazon is stealing the business from Walmart. Consolidation of industry is anti-competative. Too bad our government is so crooked.
- blibble 9y agolike Buy'n'Large from WALL-E? http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Buy_n_Large http://pixar.wikia.com/wiki/Buy_n_Large > However, by the year 2057, as shown on the Buy n Large website, the conglomerate became a worldwide leader in the fields of aerospace, agriculture, construction, consumer goods, corporate grooming, earth transport, electronics, energy, engineering, finance, food services, fusion research, government, hydro-power, infrastructures, media, medical science, mortage loans, pet care, pharmaceuticals, phsycotherapies, ports and harbors, real estate, repairs, retail, robotics, science/health, space, storage, super centers, super grids, travel services, utilities, and watermills. The corporation's control affected other companies as well. It seemed as though other businesses wanted BnL to buy them out, such as Headr Inc. which gave BnL control of the world news headlines. in 2018 this is starting to sound not so far fetched!
- hux_ 9y agoRockefeller, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford, Edison, T.J Watson, Sam Walton, Bill Gates etc etc etc were are all on the cusp of ruling the world but then what happened? The story is never simple :)
- melling 9y agoAmazon is using the Echo/Alexa to get direct access to consumers, and reduce friction shopping with Amazon: Millions on Alexa Super Bowl commercial: https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/so-whats-up-with-amazons-alexa-super-bowl-ad/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/31/so-whats-up-with-amazons-a...
- jjeaff 9y agoI'd be curious to know how much people are actually purchasing with Amazon. I have an echo in every room of my house. Yet, beyond the device purchase themselves, I do nothing with them that earns any money for Amazon. Buying stuff is just too cumbersome. I need to see my side by side price comparisons with pictures.
- melling 9y ago“Alexa, reorder paper towels “ There are lots of things where people just want to reorder. Anything more than a few words is cumbersome.
- bbgm 9y agoAnything that we purchase often (tea, etc) is easily done. But we also manage all our shopping carts via Alexa (digital and physical).
- jjeaff 9y agoSee, I did that one time. And found out that since the last time I ordered that same toilet paper, a much better deal had appeared. Amazon knows that people will buy something on sale and then hopefully continue to reorder it after the sale is over. I doubt that consumers will continue if they continually find out that they are missing out on better deals.
- blaisio 9y agoThat's the story they sell to investors, but real Amazon developers know much of their internal infrastructure is actually using some old systems and not AWS. The whole reusing internal interfaces thing isn't what they're doing at all. Really what Amazon's AWS division is good at is 1) hiring and organizing engineers and 2) selling their services to companies, sometimes very aggressively.
- whateveracct 9y agoWhen I worked at an internal Amazon team, we made heavy use of plenty of AWS services: MySQL on RDS, S3, and SQS for example. What we didn't use was EC2 et al. There was an internal equivalent for those.
- dgemm 9y agoA number of AWS services are modeled after the Amazon internal versions, but they are built from scratch and generally less rough around the edges. Then internal services migrate to the AWS versions over time. The migrations sometimes happen very slowly because teams are generally not forced to do it.