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Visualization of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft’s Consumer Product Lines

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Re: Visualization of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, and Microsoft’s Consumer Product Lines

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smm11 wrote: post #18

I'm considering everything under Alphabet to be at risk of going away at any second. Also, no idea IMDB was Amazon.

Great point, with their track record it’s partially a cautionary tale in Alphabet’s case!

IMDb being Amazon is so big. As if the rating system wasn’t already degrading enough, their ownership of it blows the whole deal in my book.

Goodreads was a discovery for me. We are purposely not selling the Papercuts Library on Amazon, but I had been eyeing a Goodreads account. Skipping it as well now.

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papercuts wrote: post #3

Oh wow, thanks HN, within seconds of being on the front page, our site is down, cheers! Checking with my web host about what to do now, but love having this problem! Hope to have the site back up to share this visualization with you soon!

Congrats! It's up now. Curious about which Dreamhost service are you using to host your website?

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ffhhj wrote: post #22
papercuts wrote: post #3

Oh wow, thanks HN, within seconds of being on the front page, our site is down, cheers! Checking with my web host about what to do now, but love having this problem! Hope to have the site back up to share this visualization with you soon!

Congrats! It's up now. Curious about which Dreamhost service are you using to host your website?

Thank you, I was just about to write up some props for DreamHost, because they were totally awesome today!

My site basically crashed within moments of being on the front page, but it turned out to be just as much about the traffic as it was a few technical elements I have not been on top of.

It was only down for an hour, but I was chatting with support within minutes, and the same person stuck with my ticket through resolution.

WooCommerce cart ajax and cron jobs were partially to blame, but DreamHost suggested a few new plugins, and I can tell on the backend that everything is happier now.

Meanwhile, traffic has been flowing in happily since. (What a day!!!)

Anyway, I’m using DreamPress Plus and have been very happy with the service and support!

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Before we drop off the front page, I just wanted to say thanks again to the HN community for an amazing day!

I was very nervous about sharing here... but while this viz is part of a book meant for a lay-consumer audience, it was written with the goal of being able to withstand the general scrutiny of the Hacker News crowd... so thanks for taking a look and sharing your thoughts and comments!

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Post by perryizgr8 »

aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA wrote: post #8

Re: Apple I don’t see how any of these are to be considered a “product”, especially since they can’t be purchased or acquired in any way apart from some actual product: * Touch ID * Apple ID * FairPlay * bridgeOS * any of the apps bundled with the OS, such as Automator or Stickies

Yeah, if that's the case then they should add things like windows hello to Microsoft's bubble.
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