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Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder by mikecane on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @08:37AM (#5133846)
>>>Amazon just builds what they need instead of depending on others and then sell it as a service to the larger market

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?

Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder by ProblemFactory on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @10:05AM (#5134342)
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 (#5136335)
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?
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder by zimbatm on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @09:01AM (#5133942)
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 (#5134852)
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 (#5139838)
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:Amazon Elastic Transcoder by eric-hu on Tuesday January 29, 2013 @04:58PM (#5136624)
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.