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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare by stackghost on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:28PM (#49948399)
Most of the tech unicorns are like this. Zuckerberg caught lightning in a bottle one single time and everything they’ve tried since has sucked. Instagram was an acquisition. So were oculus and WhatsApp. By contrast their next in-house flagship was temu Wii avatars.

Amazon hasn’t built anything innovative since the Kindle.

Surely it’s a consequence of being publicly traded that these companies cease to be able to develop good novel products rather than acquire competitors or iterate on past successes.

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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare by al_borland on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:01PM (#49948620)
When you have nothing, risk is cheap. Once you make it, the strategy tends to shift from growth to protection.
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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare by david38 on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:31AM (#49950946)
You can’t be serious? AWS blows kindle out of the water in complexity and impact. Basic AWS started in 2006, Kindle in 2007.

The number of products under the AWS that are more impactful to society and more profitable to Amazon is vast.

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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare by ceejayoz on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:10AM (#49953206)
The word used was "innovative", though.
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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare by esafak on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:25PM (#49955296)
Who offered IaaS and PaaS before AWS?? That is revolutionary.
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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare by ceejayoz on Sunday October 04, 2026 @12:28PM (#49955334)
"Amazon hasn’t built anything innovative since the Kindle."

That was in 2007; S3 and EC2 were in 2006. The pace of innovation at AWS has declined, which is partially to be expected as it matures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Temple probably counts, too. They had auto-provisioned VPSes long before EC2. I'd also count VMware ESX.

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Re:We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare by riffraff on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:54AM (#49953513)
Why would it be a consequence of being publicly traded? Apple has less concentrated ownership than Facebook or Google and has been far better at developing novel products.
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