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And yet… it’s one of the most highly valued companies on the planet, and a clear #1 in cloud services.

• Podgajski 3y ago
  This is a really ignorant comment. Of course this number one because the big money gets in early and gets out early. All the suckers are left behind. Financial capitalism doesn’t care about companies, It cares about profit.
  • laidoffamazon 3y ago
    There’s no evidence of a big money exodus. The only potential company to leave for is Azure.
    • Podgajski 3y ago
      There’s no evidence of a big money exodus….YET.
    • randerson 3y ago
      Or more companies can realize that they can be almost as productive on their own hardware as they can in The Cloud but at a fraction of the cost.
• scarface_74 3y ago
  Blackberry was at its most valuable 2 years after the iPhone came out and a year before Android was released.
  • laidoffamazon 3y ago
    If there was a cloud equivalent to the iPhone I feel like I would have heard about it. It could have been Kubernetes, but it hasn’t been. Maybe it’s them being behind on GenAI. Of course all of the OpenAI competition is trained on commodity cloud services that are basically lift and ship to any cloud with GPU capacity - so Amazon is at worst in the middle of the pack.
  • cdibona 3y ago
    But the iPhone came out in 2007 and the for g1, 2008..... so, uh.....
    • JustExAWS 3y ago
      Android was basically nothing until Verizon started selling them. The G1 was only on T-Mobile - at the time a distant 4th in the mobile space. It was so bad that not even Google’s CEO at the time used it and he still used his BlackBerry. For comparison, Steve Jobs felt the same way about Macs before OS X, the first two years he was back at Apple he used a PC running Next