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Amazon doesn't make anything. Increasingly it doesn't even own what it's selling. Same with AirBNB. They're selling a marketing platform to businesses.
by milesskorpen 6y ago
Amazon doesn't make anything. Increasingly it doesn't even own what it's selling. Same with AirBNB. They're selling a marketing platform to businesses.
- jodrellblank 6y ago> Amazon doesn't make anything. Kindle. Firestick. Echo / Echo glasses/earbuds/wearables. Delivery drone (prototypes). Luna controller. The new AZ1 chip inside Echos. They own Ring (doorbells) and Eero Wi-Fi routers. They custom design[1] their own internal routers, chips, storage and compute servers and network cards, they own Annapurna. [1] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-weapon-custom-made-hardware-network/ https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...
- milesskorpen 6y agoSure. Their biggest production line is probably the robots that are at work in their warehouses. But it's all still a rounding error for the core Ecommerce & data center businesses.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y ago> biggest production line is probably the robots that are at work in their warehouses pffft. Robot roles for their warehouses is a distinctly bounded and rather small "marketplace". Kindle sales likely outnumber this by at least 3 orders of magnitude. Not to mention Alexa technologies.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoAWS isn't a "marketing platform", and it's where most of their profit comes from. It's a bundle of many different and related technologies, most of which have only a few competitors and would be tricky to implement locally. And then there's that "Amazon doesn't make anything" claim so neatly demolished by jodrellbank.