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Re:Airbnb S-1 by milesskorpen on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:11PM (#25119240)
Amazon doesn't make anything. Increasingly it doesn't even own what it's selling. Same with AirBNB. They're selling a marketing platform to businesses.
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Re:Airbnb S-1 by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:05PM (#25120163)
AWS isn't a "marketing platform", and it's where most of their profit comes from. It's a bundle of many different and related technologies, most of which have only a few competitors and would be tricky to implement locally.

And then there's that "Amazon doesn't make anything" claim so neatly demolished by jodrellbank.

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Re:Airbnb S-1 by jodrellblank on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:25PM (#25119324)
> Amazon doesn't make anything.

Kindle. Firestick. Echo / Echo glasses/earbuds/wearables. Delivery drone (prototypes). Luna controller. The new AZ1 chip inside Echos. They own Ring (doorbells) and Eero Wi-Fi routers.

They custom design[1] their own internal routers, chips, storage and compute servers and network cards, they own Annapurna.

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-wea...

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Re:Airbnb S-1 by milesskorpen on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:57PM (#25119833)
Sure. Their biggest production line is probably the robots that are at work in their warehouses. But it's all still a rounding error for the core Ecommerce & data center businesses.
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Re:Airbnb S-1 by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:06PM (#25120168)
> biggest production line is probably the robots that are at work in their warehouses

pffft. Robot roles for their warehouses is a distinctly bounded and rather small "marketplace". Kindle sales likely outnumber this by at least 3 orders of magnitude. Not to mention Alexa technologies.

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