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Re:Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts... by herculity275 on Friday January 27, 2023 @10:22AM (#34547006)
> Even Amazon, which deals with physical objects, doesn't really make anything.

Echo, Kindle, Blink and Fire TV product lines would beg to disagree.

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Re:Apple: The Only Big Tech Giant Going Against the Job Cuts... by OJFord on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:53AM (#34548277)
And there's presumably some amount of liasing/branding/QA/etc. that goes on with suppliers of AmazonBasics, Amazon Commercial, and other house lines.

And anyway surely warehousing & distribution is just as much a 'real' (=traditional? physical?) company activity as running a factory?

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