3 ms·
Amazon accused of knocking off AWS customers' products (2013)
- didibus 8y agoBoth partners mention they knew from the start that AWS was eventually going to compete with them. I'm not sure there's anything to make of this. Looks like normal and healthy competition to me.
- GoodJokes 8y agoNo this is anticompetitive behavior enabled by monopolistic structures. No way around it.
- thatoneuser 8y agoTotally normal and healthy. Like when strip malls began copying the successful businesses they leased to and nearly instantly drove those businesses out because the strip mall entities were so ungodly powerful in comparison. Or like when Walmart started producing all the successful products it’s suppliers were making - undercutting them and causing them to close down. And who can forget the time the taxi industry was overtaken by shell companies who evaded taxes and underpaid their workers until the taxi industry collapsed? Well the last one is becoming a reality, but none of these examples should be considered normal or healthy. Competition isn’t healthy when it’s a more powerful entity sitting over a technology platform waiting for its customers to be successful only to swoop in and copy that tech and power-edge them out. It’s next gen monopolization.
- kerng 8y agoYesterday they announced DocumentDB - knock off (they could have at least picked a different name) of Microsoft's DocumentDB (which had a Mongo access API like 3+ years ago). People will eventually become more vocal about these practice. If these tactics might reach a critical threshold, the media will be all over it. 2017 Uber, 2018 Facebook, 2019 ?
- jeffbax 8y agoGuessing they've never heard of "Amazon Basics" either.
- oceanghost 8y agoIt's far worse than that. Amazon literally has hundreds of store brands. Most of them are shockingly high quality as well.