Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by ProblemFactory on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @10:05AM
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Amazon already offers warehousing and shipping as a service, even if you don't sell your products on Amazon: https://developer.amazonservices.com/gp/mws/api.html/180-311...
You ship them a pallet of stuff, and then use a web API to ask items to be delivered to addresses.
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by DoubleCluster on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @04:15PM
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Oh, they really have an API for everything. That's awesome. Now... I wonder if there are companies in China that have an API to order a pallet of stuff?
Everything that counts are infrastructure. If you're providing a service that other developers build on you're going to compete with Amazon in the future.
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by infinite8s on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @11:36AM
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Not only developers. They are also upending all intermediary businesses between manufacturers and consumers (inventory, shipping, etc).
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by barkingcat on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @10:26AM
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This is a strange question - Amazon can offer anything that can be thought of by the human mind and can be shown to make some money. It's a competitive world. I'd fully expect Amazon to do anything and everything their staff can come up with. Perhaps in a few years when the space industry takes off maybe even run a space / orbital freight service. It makes sense for them.
Re: could
Amazon has offered streaming video for years now. This is just a guess on my part, but they probably don't receive video from studios in a stream-friendly format. Their streaming format has also likely been updated over the years.
Yes. But I don't recall reading anywhere that Amazon would or even could offer this. It makes me wonder what else there is they will sell. Warehousing software? Shipping logistics? Anyone have a list?