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> Isn’t it sad that USA’s most valuable companies are advertising agencies? really??? Apple is not an advertising company. Amazon is primarily AWS, The retai

> Isn’t it sad that USA’s most valuable companies are advertising agencies? really??? Apple is not an advertising company. Amazon is primarily AWS, The retail division does have advertising but its not its primary business although it is growing. Microsoft has Bing but its by no means anywhere close to having revenue close to its other products. Google is the only company that is advertising focused.

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HDThoreaun 4y ago
Advertising is absolutely Amazon retails entire business. They've completely pivoted strategy to being a logistics platform that sells and delivers at cost and makes all the profit on high margin ads 3rd party sellers are forced to buy if they want their page seen.
- acchow 4y ago
  You're focusing on Amazon's retail side while most of Amazon's profits are from AWS. AWS is not an advertising business
  - scrum-treats 3y ago
    Let's take a step back. How does AWS capture Cloud marketshare today? Advertising. AWS can push out the newest weird-named redundant product all they want, but no one will even hear of it without Advertising.
mrtksn 4y ago
That's not the point. This wasn't a slam against the American economy or something. Obviously the US has some of the greatest tech companies, beyond the "tech" companies.