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by BraveNewCurency 2954 days ago
Sure, they share a lot, like:

- Billing: One bills you before shipping, the other bills at the end of the month.

- Cart: One lets you add items to a cart, the other lets you use products via API.

- Delivery: One requires warehouses all over the world, the other requires data centers all over the world. Only warehouses and data centers are so specialized that they aren't interchangeable.

- 3rd parties: One is a platform for creating online storefronts where 3rd parties can sell. The other is a platform that runs any code you want.

- One has a mass market audience of consumers, the other has a highly specialized market of developers.

Hmm, on second thought, maybe they are not the same business.