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by shiftpgdn
2100 days ago
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No, I completely understood. This is like the people in the 90s who were going "How can anyone compete with Wal-mart who has retail stores in every city and an incredible distribution network?" I stand by my statement that the barrier to entry for retail has never been lower. |
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My comment refers to "the barrier to entry for competing with Amazon's retail unit" to which you reply "it IS very low".
Which is comical.
Now it's shifting to "the barrier to entry for retail has never been lower."
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If you had said that we wouldn't be having this conversation, because newsflash:
> This is like the people in the 90s who were going "How can anyone compete with Wal-mart who has retail stores in every city and an incredible distribution network?"
It only took this little thing called the Internet taking off, a company that took decades to grow to the scale where they could compete with it along with their revenue from other business units like this little one called "AWS".
So yeah, if we're willing wait another couple of decades I'm sure the next Amazon would have an easier time now that they don't have to wait for the concept of Internet shopping to become mainstream.
Doesn't exactly address the original comment's point that the barriers to building something to compete with Amazon are very high though does it?
It's almost like trying to compete with Amazon's retail unit means somehow competing with a product riding on their revenue from all their other units, including AWS. The writing has been on the wall there though: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-cloud-is-funding-its...