Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by JJMcJ on Monday March 23, 2020 @04:45PM (#22668566)

Google has something similar and promotion is tied more to novelty than to keeping the lights on.

That tends to promote product churn.

Don't forget that Amazon is essentially a retailer, and their a certain amount of customer trust is essential.

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by ttul on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:29PM (#22669486)

And Amazon has “customer obsession” as a core value. I just don’t see that at Facebook or Google.

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by kccqzy on Monday March 23, 2020 @10:16PM (#22671177)

Because most of the time, a Facebook user or a Google user doesn't pay at all. Only advertisers do. And that's why these two companies generally don't have a customer-obsession culture.

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Re:Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business? by mcqueenjordan on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @12:10AM (#22671820)

There's a reason FB and Google call them users instead of customers. I remember an old joke... "there's only one other industry that calls its customers users."

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