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Re: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute

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People call on the telephone and discuss their plans, requirements, and business models before signing up. Often, once they are customers they may discuss with us ways to optimize. We check in from time to time and often they call us about their upcoming efforts to see if we have input. Of course there are some that we don't hear from at all, but whose web site at their email domains clearly spell out their businesse…

And you talk about what they're doing on a public forum?

It's a common and well known business model. We have Web hosting companies, game servers, mobile apps, cloud-managed gizmos, SaaS platforms, etc... all are common well known business models. Do you know any more about them because of this post or the information I have talked about? Maybe you didn't know they business model exists.

Re: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute

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It is such an overrated product, I have one, tried it and will send it back to amazon asap. It is Bad in so many levels, the short Controller cable is only one.

The short controller would suck, but it's kind of a requirements for compatibility with the wiimote. It 'speaks' i2c and at the data rates they require it's unlikely they could go much longer.

Re: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute

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Cool points maybe? Those could have tangible value for some people. Like streamers for instance.

You can't stream the output of an emulator?

You can, but you don't get the cool points for showing off the hyped up and hard to find product.

Re: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute

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I wouldn't have expected that. Any idea which parts and why?

"At the time I was at Amazon, working on the retail site, none of Amazon.com was running on AWS. I know, when AWS was announced, with great fanfare, they said "the services that power Amazon.com can now power your business!" or words to that effect. This was a flat out lie." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102129

I remember reading that but somehow forgot about it. It makes me wonder if the creation of AWS was an end run around devs and/or ops teams unwilling to evolve. Very political organizations seem to have such a hard time with big shifts in thinking.
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