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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by BbzzbB on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @06:56PM (#31747029)
For what it's worth, neither Target nor Walmart have a wholly unrelated cash cow (AWS) to subsidize ventures into new markets at huge losses until market dominance is established.
Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by toma_caliente on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:00PM (#31747054)
This is the big one here. Amazon has a completely unrelated market dominate business that lets them enter new markets at a loss until they crush everyone currently in that market. Amazon is honestly the first company that needs to be broken up. Split up AWS and Amazon market and this becomes a whole new ballgame.
Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by akdor1154 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:24PM (#31747260)
It's very interesting..

i understand they have a strict approach of keeping teams entirely separate and with interaction between teams no different to interaction outside the org (API-always, bill-by-usage, ...)

This has made AWS a very good provider overall, but it probably also makes them very able to cope with being forcibly separated.

I wonder if that is a vulnerability or a planned strategy for this possibility?

Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by mwilliaams on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:05PM (#31747096)
First company that needs to be broken up?? What about all the other monopolies that were busted?
Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by toma_caliente on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:22PM (#31747241)
I mean of the current tech monopolies(Amazon, Google, etc), Amazon should take priority as the first company among them that needs antitrust lawsuits filed against them and broken up.
Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by risho on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:15PM (#31747182)
I think they mean at this current point in time amazon is the company that needs to be broken up first, as in take priority over companies like facebook and apple not that this is the first company in history that has required intervention.
Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by Jgrubb on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:17PM (#31747696)
Amazon didn't have that cash cow for the first 15 years or so they existed.