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Is Amazon Unstoppable?

69 点作者 ericzawo超过 5 年前

17 条评论

joefourier超过 5 年前
I never understood this obsession with Amazon. Their online store does not offer particularly good value apart from fast shipping for commodity items. It’s convenient, but there’s plenty of competition: you can get many of the same goods on AliExpress or eBay for a lot cheaper. And when you need something more specific like audio equipment, electronics components or even a Raspberry Pi, you’ll need to go to a specialised online store as it’s unlikely to be available on Amazon, and if it is it won’t be Prime and will have a massive mark-up.<p>Their cloud offering are the real money-maker, although I’m not personally a fan due to their high price and non-intuitive interface.
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hos234超过 5 年前
They do have a weakness - Search.<p>There are a trillion products in a trillion categories and some meaningless small number get displayed on the first search result page. This is obviously highly abnormal and their own search teams will tell you that.<p>It creates unmonitorable arms races, unnatural uniformity across myriad cultures and thought processes, pissed sellers, frustrated customers and just bubbling tensions of all kinds.<p>It&#x27;s like taking all the animals and plants in the world throwing them on an island and telling visitors they experience everything through a magic window, but 10 at a time. Ofcourse they cant. If you know what you want to see - great! If not its just a useless experience.
paulpauper超过 5 年前
It&#x27;s funny how there are two concurrent narratives:<p>...the media portrays Amazon as this awful company that stiffs its employees and is destroying jobs and making the world a terrible place in the name of lower price and convenience.<p>...and yet Amazon is hugely popular with consumers, and Amazon is the second-biggest employer in the US, and there is huge demand for Amazon jobs in spite of the media&#x27;s insistence of how bad Amazon is and how bad such jobs are.<p>All these people looking to work at Amazon apparently didn&#x27;t get the media&#x27;s memo
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ohduran超过 5 年前
&quot;Can Anyone Catch Nokia&quot; - Forbes magazine, 2007
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throwawaysea超过 5 年前
The overall bias of this article is apparent from the very beginning. This is probably a good time to refer to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.allsides.com&#x2F;media-bias&#x2F;media-bias-ratings" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.allsides.com&#x2F;media-bias&#x2F;media-bias-ratings</a>, which lists The New Yorker as having a far-left bias.<p>The caption below the image next to the headline:<p>&gt; Bezos, reportedly worth a hundred and fourteen billion dollars, has donated less than three per cent of his wealth to charity.<p>Why is this caption relevant to the topic that the article purports to speak to in the title? And why is the opening paragraph just an unsubstantiated rumor about Jeff Bezos snubbing Bill Gates in an apparent act of vanity? Why mention something without evidence, except to influence the reader in bad faith? And again, why is it relevant to the title?<p>A significant portion of this article is based on the opinion of one former employee, Ian Freed. Other quotes are similarly anecdotal, without representation of opposing perspectives. And the focus shifts from topic to topic abruptly, without pausing to critically question the points that are hastily presented. For example, Biden&#x27;s comparison of Amazon&#x27;s corporate taxes to tax rates for firefighters&#x2F;teachers is nonsensical. It would make more sense to compare the personal tax rates of Amazon employees to firefighters&#x2F;teachers.<p>I will note the article isn&#x27;t all bad. I thought the story about Birkenstock was fair - counterfeits do threaten the value of brands. The bit about the positive side of warehouse jobs for workers left behind in other industries was also surprising. And I think anti-trust concerns were presented well.<p>But a lot of this very lengthy article seems to be an unfocused spray of information that presents one side of the story on many different facets, without much of a cohesive narrative.
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libertine超过 5 年前
As an Amazon seller I have a growing belief that Amazon size and support approach via AI will be their compromise.<p>AI can&#x27;t offer good customer support, and won&#x27;t offer good customer support for the foreseeable future (at least in my eyes).<p>As an Amazon customer (in the EU), it still lacks a lot of choice, but prices are good for some items. Yet anything that would require a bit of customer support I wouldn&#x27;t buy it on Amazon.<p>And by customer support I don&#x27;t mean: &quot;give me a refund&quot;.<p>A refund is the last thing I want when I buy a product - it means what I got didn&#x27;t help me at all. It wasted my time, and I still have a problem.<p>With this said, ecommerce wise, I think Amazon is a giant with a lot of flaws bound to their size, that can be tackled by other players.
fouc超过 5 年前
Is Google Unstoppable?<p>At this point Amazon is probably the less evil corporation compared to Google.
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spodek超过 5 年前
<i>Amazon.com</i> means <i>garbage</i> to me.<p>Mainly because I see how much garbage from them ends up in my building&#x27;s trash. And my city&#x27;s trash.<p>The most visible is their packaging, but their ease-of-ordering leads to most of the products people buy from them being stupid shit nobody needs or wants beyond the moment someone&#x27;s urge leads them to buy it now.<p>I suggest that most of us would be happier and the world cleaner if Amazon located its warehouses next to landfills and when people bought things they simply moved the products from the warehouse to the landfill, skipping the steps of shipping them to the person for them to throw them out. For example, my city, New York&#x27;s, Department of Sanitation cost would drop from 1.6 billion annually and our noise would drop with fewer trash trucks.<p>Of course I&#x27;m overstating, but the longer you go without using them, the less you&#x27;ll consider it overstatement. If you haven&#x27;t, I recommend going without for six months or a year.
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kbos87超过 5 年前
Amazon is only unstoppable if we let them be. The world would be a much more interesting place for founders and employees if amazon were limited to being 1&#x2F;100th its size.
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sveme超过 5 年前
I wonder whether there is already a law that states:<p>&quot;Whenever the media implies that a hegemon will be at the number one spot forever, it will mark the start of its decline&quot;.
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mooreds超过 5 年前
This is a great post about a different perspective on Amazon: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zackkanter.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;what-is-amazon&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zackkanter.com&#x2F;2019&#x2F;03&#x2F;13&#x2F;what-is-amazon&#x2F;</a><p>It also talks about the flywheels and how advertising is taking Amazon down the wrong path.
cs702超过 5 年前
I just finished reading this well-researched and well-written article, and the best way I can summarize it is with a quote from <i>The Dark Knight</i>:<p>&quot;You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.&quot;[a]<p>--<p>[a] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dark_Knight_(film)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikiquote.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_Dark_Knight_(film)</a>
Merrill超过 5 年前
Someone who recently became a new first-time mom credits Amazon&#x27;s same-day delivery, Target&#x27;s same-day pickup, and a supermarket&#x27;s online order &#x2F; bring to your car service with making life a lot easier.<p>Her sister, who had kids last decade, is jealous. I don&#x27;t think consumers want to stop Amazon.
jdkee超过 5 年前
It is only unstoppable to the extent that there is no political will to regulate or break it up.
m463超过 5 年前
It will be stopped by a company that either doesn&#x27;t exist or is a startup now.<p>IBM &gt; Microsoft &gt; Google &gt; Duck Duck Go
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joeblow9999超过 5 年前
good to see betteridge&#x27;s law going strong
11235813213455超过 5 年前
I&#x27;m more concerned about the health of Amazon Forest