The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”

Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by iudqnolq on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:37AM (#37765830)

When Facebook was founded there was no Facebook. Now there is a Facebook.

When there's a better alternative customers are less likely to try out your new, less good idea.

Can you give an example of someone serious using IPFS instead of S3? I don't really get what "all storage worldwide" means.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by megaman821 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:34AM (#37766665)

Except there was a Facebook and it was called MySpace. Facebook won because people enjoyed using it better.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by iudqnolq on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:36PM (#37768748)

yes, but the bar for better was much lower back then. if you released the original Facebook today it would be so obviously so much worse than the competitors it wouldn't get any traction.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by EGreg on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:58PM (#37769105)

When FB was founded there were:

  MySpace

  Friendster

  Whimit - Russians online (LOL)

and many other small examples. There was still AOL, MSN, etc. There was a time when they ruled.

The only reason that FB, Google and yes Amazon were even able to launch, is because the open permissionless web disrupted AOL, MSN etc. Imagine them allowing Amazon to launch on top of them. They’d cannibalize them just like Amazon cannibalizes sellers.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by oblio on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @04:47PM (#37771519)

All of those had 10% of Facebook's current users, at best, and probably 1% of their spare cash.

Scale matters. You seem to be a programmer, you should know that.

Quantity has a quality all its own.

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