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Everything at Amazon is about creating scale. Prime exists to get shipping volumes up far enough to pull things like trucking items daily from Vegas to Souther
by happycube 13y ago
Everything at Amazon is about creating scale.
Prime exists to get shipping volumes up far enough to pull things like trucking items daily from Vegas to Southern California, directly into the USPS system at the sorting facilities - and eventually direct deliveries.
The other thing - which lead to AWS, FBA, etc, was that each Amazon department had to make a globally usable API, even for (then!) inside facing stuff.
Combining those and you get a giant. Hopefully Bezos will stick around for a while yet - I can't see Amazon continuing to not maximize profits in exchange for volume very long after he's gone.
- pyre 13y agoWhat happens to the kingdom once the "good king" passes away... Edit: I was angling more at the fact that Amazon has been very dominant, and that's not going away soon. So if it starts getting bad, it's not like there will be something just as good overnight. Look at how long it took to erode MS's dominance from the 90's.
- pstuart 13y agoEmpires come, and empires go.
- evv 13y agoThe economy thrives because of the increased competition..
- aquadrop 13y agoAnd ironically, MS is the one which can prevent Amazon from doing bad things. Since it's a very large company with a lot of resources and they invest heavily in Azure. Google stands near with its compute engine. And there's bunch of smaller companies ready to compete. I think this market isn't in danger of monopolization.
- WesternStar 13y agoHonestly, if I'm Amazon or Google I'm in that business not really to make money. Hell, I'll run the same business at a loss frankly because I have to build that business anyway to run the business I'm already in. I need the infrastructure to run a scalable website if my competitors and others want to pay me to do that ,great.