[nix23]

Yeah, his point are not are not good, but if you think about the Bell-Story (the us allowed just one company to take over the phones-lines the other can make the computers), if you look at amazon and google today, that's definitely a mono-pol.

[enitihas]

In what sector is Amazon a monopoly?

[nix23]

Shopping, Data-centers, Live-Streaming, Audio-book's and E-books maybe even logistics.

Edit: Hey Jeff please stop down-voting me, you know it's the truth ;)

[logicprog]

Quoting a comment from upstream in response to this:

> In what sector is Amazon a monopoly. Retail? Walmart is much larger and Amazon's share of the market is too small to be a monopoly. Ecommerce? Even in ecommerce, Amazon's share is <50%.

So let's summarize: Amazon isn't a monopoly in "shopping" in any sense; there are other companies that run datacenters; since when does Amazon do live streaming? (and even if it does there are a million other apps/websites more people use for that); they don't have a monopoly in audiobooks; and they CERTAINLY don't have a monopoly in ebooks.

Just because they're a big noticeable name doesn't make them a monopoly. I'd downvote you if you could, and my name isn't Jeff.

[nix23]

1: Waltmart is just us, amazon is global (try to think about that the world is bigger then just the us please)

2: Livestreaming - Twitch, with you're arguments google is not a monopoly (there are other search-engines) and no, livestreaming to millions is not something 1000 other apps can do...know why...datacenters

3: Audible probably 90% market-share

4: Ebooks of course they are the biggest seller of ebooks in combination with kindle's

5: Yes there are other's but the only competitor is Azure and google..that's maybe the only point where you are right

[enitihas]

1. Walmart operates in many countries, plus their US only revenue might be larger than Amazon's all retail revenue. Plus Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook operate in nearly all countries, a much bigger number than Amazon.

2. Twitch is restricted to a niche. Facebook video, YouTube, and even TikTok all have more users.

3. This might be correct but this is a very small market. Microsoft has similar market share in Office Suits.

4. Biggest seller doesn't make a monopoly. If it did, every industry will bave a monopoly.

5. How is AWS a monopoly there, when so many competitors exist, and the likes of Google have humongous internal data centres which might be on the same scale as all of AWS.

[nix23]

>Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook

Not shopping/ecommerce..oh and i never said that google is not a monopoly

>Twitch is restricted to a niche

Facbook, ~youtube, TikTok ist NOT Livestreaming...also not Zoom or Skype

>Biggest seller doesn't make a monopoly

When you (Amazon) can make the price because everything other is a loss for you (the producer)..yes then it is a monopoly

>How is AWS a monopoly there

Yes i wrote thats maybe the only point you are right

Oh and here a interesting link for your Walmart-theory: https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/amazon-pred...