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Amazon's inshittification of everything continues. They also own AbeBooks, have their own cargo airline, Twitch, Audible, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Kindle, Ring, Who
by cratermoon 3y ago
Amazon's inshittification of everything continues. They also own AbeBooks, have their own cargo airline, Twitch, Audible, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Kindle, Ring, Whole Foods, IMDb, Zappos, Egghead, the late lamented DPReview, and a few others.
> incredibly anti-competitive.
A description of Amazon in general.
- jzonedotcom 3y agoIn my opinion Amazon’s purchase and immediate dismantling of the vaunted Stanza was most egregious & anticompetitive. I loved that app. And then poof gone.
- cratermoon 3y agoThat purchase would not have been allowed to go through in the pre-Reagan monopoly legal era.
- CobaltFire 3y agoDPReview was bought and saved, at least. So let’s not label them late and lamented yet! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409566 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409566
- jurassicfoxy 3y agoWhaaat I didn't know they owned AbeBooks. I love AbeBooks. I wonder how much of a cut they take from booksellers?
- cratermoon 3y agoI love AbeBooks, too. I started to go there as Amazon's listings got more enshittified. Rather than fixing their product, they just bought the competition.