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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by timmaxw on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:03PM (#37768204)
The latter seems plausible to me, but the former makes no sense. If the problem is that Amazon-retail has too much market power, how would splitting off AWS help with that problem? Amazon-retail would still have the same fraction of the retail market as before.
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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by scarface_74 on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:35PM (#37768728)
Exactly, people here who shout “break them up”, don’t put an ounce of thought into it.
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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by burkaman on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:16PM (#37769367)
Splitting off AWS wouldn't be enough on its own, but I think the argument would be that Amazon makes a substantial amount of its operating income from AWS (70% in the latest quarter: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/news-release/news-release-details...), which allows it to fund anti-competitive marketplace practices like undercutting competitors at a loss to force them out of business. It would be more difficult to sustain such practices without AWS income.
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