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Re:DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federa... by hef19898 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:53AM (#24837292)
While I am not totally against spliting up Amazon (it would maybe even drive the combinede shares up, who knows?), it might be uch harder to do so. Amazon, while being dominant in eCommerce, is still a small player in overall retail and has legit competition from Alibaba and the likes. eBay is still a thing as well. As is Shopify. So Amazon could argue to be less of an anti-trust candidat purely because of that. Whether this is true or not is a different matter, so.

Google on the other hand, well I don't know about any legit compeitor in the web search field. They do have a quais duo-poly for ads together with facebook IMHO. Not saying they have to split up, but I'd expec Google to have a much harder time argueing against anti-trust charges.

And strangely enough, I don't think that this is in any way a political stunt or politically motivated. The investigations are going for quite a while now already.

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Re:DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federa... by CuriouslyC on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:18AM (#24837554)
I think the world would be a better place if AWS and Amazon retail were split. AWS is such a cash cow that it lets Amazon win scorched earth wars of attrition with almost anyone it wants, which is not likely to end well for the consumer in the long run.

I don't know that the legal case against Amazon is quite as clear cut though. Facebook, on the other hand...

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Re:DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federa... by hef19898 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:28AM (#24838467)
I started to suspect a AWS / Retail split up, a voluntar one, as far back as 2017. I also assumed that the stock price of 1,000 $ at that time reflected that already. I guess I got that very, very wrong.

It is absolutely true so, that AWS is Amazon's cash cow making all the rest possible. And the rest is driving Amazon's cashflow. Pretty neat set-up, if you ask me.

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Re:DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federa... by jaywalk on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:28AM (#24837694)
Just off the top of my head, I can see three parts that Amazon should be broken into: AWS, Amazon (the store) and AmazonBasics.
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Re:DOJ will charge Google with multiple violations of federa... by Nasrudith on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:41AM (#24837853)
So when will they go after everyone else in this index? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Store_brands

Seriously what is with that talking point and how the hell did it get people conditioned to accept that novel nonsensical standard as "the way things should be"?

It is like an algorithim was run on random complaints against Amazon after it was told to filter on "item arrived broken" after it kept just spitting out the least helpful 1 star reviews.

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