Amazon owns too much shit. They should be broken up into 5-6 different companies
this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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Damn, I didn't know they owned IMDB too. I love this Cool Guides community!
I sometimes check IMDB on my TV when I'm watching something. Since I can't get real ad blockers on the TV, I only have dns level blocking, which is less effective. And IMDB has been terrible lately, as it seems more interested in shilling prime content and showing me ads for completely unrelated items on Amazon than it is in actually loading the goddamn page.
They missed a few:
- Zappos
- PillPack
- One Medical
- Whole Foods
- Kiva Robotics
- MGM Studios
- Egghead Software
- DPReview
- AbeBooks
- Woot
- Goodreads
- Comixology
- Ring
- Eero
They also have stakes in:
- Drugstore.com
- Anthropic
- Rivian
"everyone" here meaning, what, 2-3 other megacorps?
fuck Amazon, sure, but in Amazon vs Google we lose either way.
I don’t think Azure or Google Cloud are much better. It would be better to self host.
Very little of the competition in any sector is actually better. It just depends what flavour of enshittification you prefer.
Time to learn to self host.
I self host nextcloud, jellyfin and set of servarrs. Next project is probably searx. Unfortunately there aren't really options in at least a few categories.
Yeah but self hosting at scale isn’t remotely easy.
I’m talking thousands of servers; as someone who ran infra in a bare metal data center, it’s got its own set of issues. I hate google cloud and aws, but they do beat running your own hardware.
It’s so wild that tycoons will be like “central planning doesn’t work, we gotta leave everything up to the market”, but then the market just looks like 5-10 mega-conglomerates centrally planning everything.
"We need small government!" So instead of getting screwed by the guy who has to stand in front of you and say he's going to screw you, we'll have a bunch of guys hiding behind shell companies screwing us and bribing the politicians to make it legal.
I don't know if it's intentional, but yes, seeing a deleted image does scream them not wanting you to see whatever it is that was on it.
Edit: image back up
This is how you become a trillionaire. Nothing has been stopping them from being a monopoly, so why stop now.
If they are allowed to do it, then it's hard to blame them. They have free reign to do everything. Destroying the environment, obliterating competition, and enshittifying their own products along the way.
Welcome to the ~~future~~ now.
This doesn’t come close to listing all the companies they’re competing with in each of those spaces, and in some cases those competitors came later to take on a service Amazon developed. I’m 90% sure Microsoft Azure came along after AWS and I think Alexa was the first of that kind of device, before the Google Home speakers. It’s a good overview of some of the diverse markets they’re in, though.
This post reminded me of three apps I have on my phone I don’t want or need. Deleted them. Thank you.
lol. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are a whole hell of a lot more than storage.
Don't forget Libro.fm for audiobooks, maybe I'm misinformed, but I thought they were one of the stronger competitors at least in terms of completeness of selection.