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Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale. There's a reason why it's called Google scale and not Amazon scale. Also b
by lawrenceyan 8y ago
Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale. There's a reason why it's called Google scale and not Amazon scale.
Also because as humans, we're generally more inclined to dogpile onto the Goliath and root for the David. Underdogs almost always get treated more leniently.
- polishTar 8y agoFor what it's worth, Amazon is the same size as Google now (technically a little bit larger by market cap).
- oarsinsync 8y agoGoogle doesn't really have much of a retail division though, and is almost entirely services-based. When services disappear, the time and effort you've invested into them disappear. When a shop stops selling a product, you can still keep using the product you have. They don't take it away from you.
- marcinzm 8y ago>Mostly because people don't really use any of the products Amazon releases at scale. AWS would beg to differ. However, Amazon has been very good at not getting rid of AWS services so it's reputation is that it's at scale services are going to stay safe.
- lawrenceyan 8y agoMaybe to clarify better, it's the bunches of ancillary products and services I'm talking about. Core items like AWS and Google Cloud are of course by definition going to require an inherent scalability to be meaningful.
- marcinzm 8y agoAWS is not a single service but a large collection of separate services that interconnect. Some of which are quiet old and not exactly cutting edge. Yet they don't get deprecated.
- lawrenceyan 8y agoYou could say the exact same thing about Google Cloud. What I'm more talking about is stuff like Google Keep, Docs, Slides, Sheets, Kubernetes, Istio, etc. etc.