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That’s quite literally AWS’s playbook. Fill the vendor hall with tech, learn it, see what sticks and then crush it. This is why I’m bullish on cloud agnostic t
by ryanSrich 8y ago
That’s quite literally AWS’s playbook. Fill the vendor hall with tech, learn it, see what sticks and then crush it.
This is why I’m bullish on cloud agnostic tech. These practices don’t typically fair well in the enterprise space. This is why companies like MSFT are interesting to me. They partner and rarely kill. Amazon is the complete opposite.
- benologist 8y agoYou can't even sell merchandise on Amazon without significant risk they will like your numbers enough to muscle you out: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011 https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011
- clubm8 8y agoI've found anything more complex than an adapter or cable to be of inferior quality with Amazon Basics, and rarely buy those options anymore.
- wiredfool 8y agoTheir low discharge nimh batteries were/are pretty good for the money. Though, most of mine are old, so I don’t have good current data on the quality.
- degenerate 8y agoThe mini condenser microphones are actually REALLY good and on par with Yeti and other $100+ mics. https://smile.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Desktop-Mini-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B076ZSRVFQ/ https://smile.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-Desktop-Mini-Condenser...
- copperx 8y agoAccording to reviews that's a lowly electret microphone capsule ($1) in a big housing. For podcasting you want a directional microphone. In defense of electrets, they sound great, but pick up everything. The shape of the microphone suggests it's a directional microphone (and if you read the reviews, people think it is directional). That's perhaps not a scam, but certainly deceptive.
- the_arun 8y agoIkea as a Service!
- hobofan 8y agoEven apart from AmazonBasics, if you've found established a niche product that sells well as a merchant on Amazon, you can be sure that Amazon will swoop in and undercut you ASAP.
- pritambaral 8y ago> They partner and rarely kill. How the times have changed.
- Spooky23 8y agoI wouldn’t count on that. These hyperscale players don’t have the time to worry about their “friends”. Example: Do you really think that the warm embrace of VMware Horizon and Citrix on Azure is the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship?
- ryanSrich 8y agoThat’s a fair point, but I would look to specific markets instead of tech to see where AWS and Amazon might run into issues. Specifically within healthcare. You think large Pharma companies will use AWS after the pill pocket acquisition? Do you think once Amazon.com starts listing prosthetics large life sciences companies will run on AWS? What about providers? Do you think health systems will choose AWS as their cloud once Amazon launches their version of KP? I don’t see Azure or GCP getting into these specific markets.
- scarface74 8y agoDo you see Netflix hosting their entire infrastructure on AWS after Amazon released Amazon Video.....
- Spooky23 8y agoI would agree that it's unlikely that Google or Microsoft will start making prosthetics -- although they could spin GCP or Azure off into other corporate entities or operators who did someday. More likely would be that Google, Amazon, Microsoft and some affiliated company would be competing in a space where telemetry from something like a prosthetic was reporting information that had some value. In any situation, the downside of renting something is that you lose control. It is something that you need to think about and incorporate into your business strategy in some scenarios.
- oh-kumudo 8y agoTBH such services are super simple to build, low hanging fruit for AWS, you shouldn't really base your business model and livelihood on big player's mercy