Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos?

Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by Y7ZCQtNo39 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:15AM (#15390098)

So you're saying Amazon is no different -- they'll try and take on nearly every industry, but will really only have one core competence in 20 years?

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Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by kogepathic on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:43AM (#15390636)

> So you're saying Amazon is no different -- they'll try and take on nearly every industry, but will really only have one core competence in 20 years?

I think that 20 years ago people couldn't see a competitor coming along that could disrupt Microsoft, because they were so big and into everything.

But that's because no one foresaw the coming of the smartphone. Microsoft is still king on PCs, but the PC market has been in decline for years. Back in the early 00's no one predicted the iPhone and Android, and what a massive impact they would have on the PC market.

I would argue that Microsoft actually has two core competencies today: Office, and services (e.g. Windows/Azure). But yes, they definitely went from "king of everything" to "well enterprise still uses them" remarkably quickly.

tl;dr - Something will likely disrupt Amazon, but it's difficult for us to predict what that will be until it happens

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Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by danenania on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:38AM (#15391434)

I think AWS in particular will be facing some major threats over the next 5-10 years, from Google but also from emerging players. Everything that makes them a top choice today is getting commodified, and they are rapidly falling behind on developer experience as they layer more and more complexity onto their workflows.

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Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by Y7ZCQtNo39 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:49PM (#15394415)

I feel like AWS is already seeing threats. In the timeframe of 5-10 years, absolutely will that space look quite different.

Personally, I find AWS' interface to be super clunky. In fact, I find all of Amazon's interfaces (AWS, Amazon.com, the Amazon iOS app, to name a few) to really be poor examples of UX.

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Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by biocomputation on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @02:55AM (#15390680)

Totally agree.

Amazon's problem is that it has a very large surface area. To competitors, that can be a feature or a bug.

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Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by WalterBright on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @03:45AM (#15390853)

In the 80's, people said IBM was unstoppable, this time it's different and IBM would take over the world. In the 90's IBM faded, and people said Microsoft was unstoppable, this time it's different, and Microsoft would take over the world. In the 00's, people say Amazon is unstoppable, this time it's different, etc.

And so it goes :-)

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