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I wrote that tweet — what people are missing is that it doesn't have to be premeditated or explicit coordination to have the same result. The word "coup" probab
by kepano 3y ago
I wrote that tweet — what people are missing is that it doesn't have to be premeditated or explicit coordination to have the same result. The word "coup" probably ascribes too much intentionality.
1, 3, 4 are facts. The only item that is speculative is 2 but it seems obvious that Shopify would have used that lever in negotiating the partnership that was announced this week (buy with Prime + Amazon's logistics network).
In other words, you can draw your own conclusions about whether it was intentional, incompetence, or a series of selfish decisions that had the same emergent result.
- tqi 3y agoYour tweet heavily implies intentionality.
- kepano 3y agoTo be clear, I don't think it was a conspiracy. Intentionality when applied to an organization on the scale of Amazon is weird. "Amazon" is not one thing, it's a million people each acting in their own self-interest and what they see being in the interest of the collective. The collective can respond to threats without explicit coordination, and destroy competitors completely incidentally. I'm trying to think of a better word than "coup". Maybe it's just collateral damage.