Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says::Amazon allegedly destroyed communications, turned controversial programs on and off, and knowingly raised prices for consumers, according to unsealed documents.
Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says::Amazon allegedly destroyed communications, turned controversial programs on and off, and knowingly raised prices for consumers, according to unsealed documents.
Split Amazon into retail and web services and then further split them into multiple different companies. Amazon has gotten way too big and stifling competition along the way.
Do the same to Facebook too while we’re at it. Fucking hate speech central.
Amazon, meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple…
Even though I’m not a fan of Apple, I am not sure how it could be split. Unlike other companies mentioned, Apple is firmly in consumer electronics business, except for Apple TV+ which is a recent addition.
Their software products also exist to work only on specific hardware.
Also, only today I figured out that they have their own office suite lol. Don’t know why I never thought about it before
They are heavily vertically integrated, even if split, they’d still work together as one company, because they simply don’t have any other choice.
There are many products all of these companies have that aren’t profitable (f.e. YouTube would either die or get enshitified to hell, can’t see Prime Music surviving without the rest of the Prime ecosystem etc.).
Splitting most of these up would not help anyone.
Good.
Companies have been using their profitable ventures to get dominant (or even solo) position in another market segment by undercutting the competition and then degrade their services as there’s no other alternative for customers.
This should force them (and customers) to reconsider their offerings and the pricing for it.
MAGMA
The moment you seperate AWS from the rest, the rest will shut down.
If Amazon (retail) can’t survive on it’s own without exploiting workers and all the other crap they do, then we’ll be better off without it.
I’m not just asking to separate AWS. I want AWS to further split into different companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
Why would you think that it isn’t profitable?
Because they sell the bulk of their products at a loss. They use their webservices platform to bankroll their retail platform so they can undersell even Walmart. Some years it does turn a slight profit but generally it’s fairly negative but no matter what it doesn’t offset the pure profit that is the web services division. https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx
Serious question, why do they then even bother with the retail platform?
If I had to guess, to achieve the ultimate conclusion of the Walmart plan, squash every other retailer in the nation and then raise prices.
Brand awareness, data metrics, upselling their shitty amazon choice products.