[kristianc]

It's probably because by and large Amazon kills physical products and Google kills services.

If someone buys a Fire Phone and it gets discontinued - well, products getting discontinued is part of life and it doesn't (usually) affect the usage of the one you have.

If Google builds a web service, then that service has the chance to grow to 50m / 100m users before deciding that it is not worth supporting. Law of large numbers says of those 50/100m a non-trivial proportion will invest substantial time in it and get pissed off when they have to make alternative plans.

If Amazon killed Prime Video or Audible, I bet you’d see a pretty huge outcry.

[wstrange]

Amazon ended music uploads [0] But - yea, no HN outrage...

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

[jimmy1]

Wait until Amazon starts killing off some AWS services or features.

[marcinzm]

Which is likely why they have gone out of their way to not kill off AWS services.