> The only reason they're the leading computing platform is trust.
Is there a lot of that left since they knocked Netflix offline on Christmas eve?
Re:Amazon Elastic Transcoder
by huhtenberg on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @05:00AM
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Plenty left.
> I think Amazon is smart enough to know that they can't give anybody short shrift.
Really? One example: When states threatened sales tax (before CA), they cut off retailers in those states.
They can and they have given people short shrift when it's in their business interest. To be fair, that just means they know how to increase sales by selecting who gets thrown to the lions, which is necessary in any business.
Sorry, I am speaking specifically of the AWS business.
I think most people making platform selections are mainly focused on AWS. I'm sure they pay some attention now to Amazon proper, but their affiliate programs were a peripheral thing, and
The only reason they're the leading computing platform is trust. Trust is the biggest factor in a platform decision, and they'd be foolish to put all their other business at risk for a temporary advantage in one small slice. Especially since they are still making money on every Zencoder job.