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How many Amazon apps do you use other than Amazon.com, Kindle, Echo? How is it still a fair comparison?

• meowface 7y ago
  Yeah it's still not really a fair comparison (though one could easily imagine Amazon shuttering Fresh, or certain Kindle or Echo features). I could compare it to a company like Cloudflare, who do offer lots of different public, free services (even if their market is different) and don't seem to have shut anything down. Maybe not the best analogy either, but the problem is no other company has the kind of breadth of free public consumer-facing services that Google has, so no analogy would work. On one hand that could be a defense, by saying what Google's doing is unique and risky so sudden cancellations are to be expected. But on the other hand who knows how another company might handle a similar situation; we have no way of knowing.
  • what_ever 7y ago
    Well one has a way of knowing by looking at the type of services by their not so short track record instead of going on with their bias or intuition.