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Amazon, for example?
by dotcoma 3y ago
Amazon, for example?
- Mistletoe 3y agoAmazon, is the example given in the first few paragraphs.
- dotcoma 3y agoI did not read the article, as I imagine you can imagine…
- ezekiel68 3y agoI imagine we didn't need to imagine.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoAmazon is the new Microsoft. Microsoft was once something that a manager at a consulting firm I worked with held up as exemplaries in software. Yes, the release-beta-to-the-market windows bluescreens etc. Amazon seems to be similarly deified by software management these days, but... why? Amazon the commercial website frankly sucks. The product information is bad (compare something like computer parts with something like NewEgg). The reviews are suspect, the search results gamed. AWS has so many warts and fake not-down even in the core of EC2 / S3 / etc, and itself a TERRIBLE console and not-great API, things that minimal investment should fix but never have. The fact is that software management is still management and they don't get software. They only respect management, which actually is "successful in market cap" not necessarily the impossible to measure actual good management.
- DanielHB 3y agothey were there first, that is why they were successful To be fair they were there with e-commerce and cloud services so many years ahead the competition it is understandable to some extent why their products have so many warts. Competitors could see things that didn't work well in amazon products and improve where it was obvious They have a moat around their products, in retail they have the user-base and in AWS they have the developer-base (devs who know how to set up things in AWS). These things take a long time to erode away as competition increases no matter how good the competition product is