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Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason. Amazon is famous for stealing whatever data they can get to promote their own business over their customers

Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason. Amazon is famous for stealing whatever data they can get to promote their own business over their customers. Some might consider Zoom giving Google, Amazon, or Microsoft insights into their business as the crazy decision.

jhwang5 6y ago
Are we giving FB a pass for stealing competitor ideas? IG stories (from Snap), FB Room - Zoom Clone, etc.
- _fat_santa 6y ago
  In my view, those are not the same. If you have a product that I like and then I subsequently copy it then that's one thing. You store your data with me and then I use your data to give my product a competitive advantage over yours is completely different.
  - jhwang5 6y ago
    How so? Different in what sense?
    - unreal37 6y ago
      Ideas are not protected under law. There's no "stealing" of ideas. You can steal data, code, and customer lists.
user5994461 6y ago
The comparison is misplaced. Google is not in Zoom business. Google barely happens to have a third grade product for video call, sold as part of their business tools package. The Google product has been shut down and renamed like 5 times since it was created and people don't even take it seriously. Amazon and Walmart are selling the exact same products, they're competing head to head for every sale trying to get the customer to not shop on the other.
- Crash0v3rid3 6y ago
  They recently reported 100 million daily active users and growing by 3 million a day. I think people are taking it seriously.
x3n0ph3n3 6y ago
> Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason. This isn't strictly the case. They do push some of their data to other SaaS providers hosted on AWS.