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A comment on Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?.

Re:Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business? by biasforaction on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @05:27PM (#16478615)
I have mixed feelings when reading these stories. I believe that a lot of competition and innovation is needed in our industry and whenever I see a service throw in the towel because of AWS, I cant help but feel that my future is threatened.

From my perspective, it's the smaller companies that pose the biggest threat to AWS/Amazon because they are able to satisfy their customer's needs far better and faster.

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Re:Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business? by tjr225 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:53AM (#16480993)
I remember in the first decade of this century and everyone was afraid of Wal Mart killing small business (and in some ways it did)- but now look at Wal-Mart...

I don't like Amazon on a philosophical basis- the same reason I don't like Wal-Mart, and Amazon is just the Wal-Mart of everything. Hopefully someone comes to their senses and breaks up companies who are able to use profits from various subsidiaries to undercut competitors in others.

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