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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by mhermher on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:25PM (#20570246)
Because they're dependent on selling hardware, not software. It's not rocket science, hardware doesn't scale as easily as software, so it leads to a smaller multiplier.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by capkutay on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:32PM (#20570292)
And amazon has 125,000 employees running their supply chain. I wouldn't call that 'easy to scale' either.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by outside1234 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:40PM (#20570352)
And amazon barely makes any profit, so its not clear that their business actually does scale, if they didn’t have AWS.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by jhall1468 on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @10:09PM (#20571165)
AWS is their business and it certainly scales. Their goal in retail is market dominance through convenience and that still costs a ton of money. AWS does not cost a ton of money.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by Touche on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:44PM (#20570376)
Their goal is not to make a profit or they would be
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by ekianjo on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:42PM (#20570362)
Amazon is not just moving goods, they have AWS as well and that scales very well.
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Re:Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again by KptMarchewa on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @04:33AM (#20572603)
Not more? Wikipedia claims Amazon has 647,500 employees.
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