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It is all fun and games until AliBaba joins the game ;)
Already there. PayTM Mall
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show me one good thing that came from Walmart Labs.
Their GitHub page is also worth looking at: https://github.com/walmartlabs How many nice things have Amazon open sourced?
Seriously, Walmart and Clojure? Who would have imagined! I always thought of Walmart as a boring and traditional company that sells cheap goods. So when I heard about Walmart Labs, I thought all their coding must be in C++ or Java or even Cobol (who knows!).
But to see them using a dialect of Lisp like Clojure and Go more than Java and C++ warms my heart. :-)
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Same here. I think the reason was the amazing customer service at Amazon, and mostly the effective price on Amazon was always lower.
I think Prime also killed it. Fast deliveries and no minimum amount ended up making Amazon the first choice in my head.
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> How many nice things have Amazon open sourced? Good research need not always be open sourced. That is irrelevant to it's quality.
Amazon has built a giant business on top of open source technologies. Don't you think it is natural for the open source community to expect that Amazon give something back to them out of courtesy? The GP asked for a good thing that came out of Walmart Labs hinting at the idea that good things come out from Amazon but not Walmart Labs. Then a few commenters pointed out a few links showing the good things that came out…
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I agree with amazon killing it. I used to shop both on flipkart and amazon. Now I just shop on Amazon. At some point I just stopped checking flipkart.
Same here. I think the reason was the amazing customer service at Amazon, and mostly the effective price on Amazon was always lower.
I just can't believe that Flipkart still doesn't have filter and sort by ratings. There can be arguments about how effective ratings are but this is one feature I definitely need for buying or booking anything - from my stationary to hotels and buses.
PS. I just logged in to Flipkart to check whether they have added that feature yet. I guess my last login was a year ago or more. Last purchase was on July 29, 2015.
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I'm going to assume you aren't in the US because that simply isn't true here. Amazon is quite often not the lowest price. And, while they do still seem to be quite liberal with "send it back and we'll refund plus ", that doesn't matter if you can't get a genuine product because of all the counterfeits.
The only place on the internet I read about Amazon's supposed counterfeit problem is on HackerNews. I buy everything on Amazon, and I've never had this problem. Do you have any data to back up this claim?
If you buy something used, or something with a lot of knockoffs (Xiaomi) or old tech (GameCube Controllers) there is a chance you will get a counterfeit.
I switched to buying all that stuff from eBay and it's much better. Untrusted-by-default makes eBay a very healthy marketplace to buy and sell in.
I may be completely ignorant but, is it weird that the biggest retailer in India has an English name?
There are more speakers of Hindi than English in India, but they are geographically skewed toward the north of the country. Some regions (esp Tamil Nadu) are actively antagonistic toward Hindi. English is a good bet to be able to communicate across the entire country, and is also an official language.
People of any region tend to be antagonistic towards crude attempts to force a foreign language and culture upon them. Hindi has no common ancestry with South Indian languages like Tamil. In fact, Hindi-Urdu-Farsi is from the same language family as English. Therefore, Hindi is just as foreign as English to South India and therefore it makes much more sense for South Indians to speak their native tongues and a useful foreign language like English or perhaps Mandarin in the future rather than be forced to learn Hindi.
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I'm going to assume you aren't in the US because that simply isn't true here. Amazon is quite often not the lowest price. And, while they do still seem to be quite liberal with "send it back and we'll refund plus ", that doesn't matter if you can't get a genuine product because of all the counterfeits.
The only place on the internet I read about Amazon's supposed counterfeit problem is on HackerNews. I buy everything on Amazon, and I've never had this problem. Do you have any data to back up this claim?
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we keep hearing this yet there is hardly good evidence for this. And if if occurs then more opportiunities open for their competitors.
How about cable companies? Some argue Amazon is subsidized in the same way, by having USPS shipping cheaply to the outskirts.
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we keep hearing this yet there is hardly good evidence for this. And if if occurs then more opportiunities open for their competitors.
How about cable companies? Some argue Amazon is subsidized in the same way, by having USPS shipping cheaply to the outskirts.
I may be incorrect, but my understanding is that while Amazon pays a discounted rate, this is the same as any other bulk shipper for USPS, and in fact, without Amazon, many routes would not be profitable for USPS without Amazon.