There's a lot of overlap between business commentary and sports commentary.
What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
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She's pretty and smells good but I think we need some more solid proof.
Think about how much you hear about Yahoo in 2013. Think about how much you heard about Yahoo in 2011.
Maybe I haven't been reading much, but what else has Yahoo done recently besides bring in Mayer and do a website redesign?
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#33Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
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I think that's a better alternative than having traditional news organs being controlled by people who make their money from those news organs. (I would argue the best alternative is ownership by individuals/organizations who have no financial stake whatsoever in journalism.)
Excellent point. There is another category of bad owners too, state owned. I'd almost prefer that to the square metre of adverts per story that the local rag produces though.
State controlled media is certainly bad, but that is not implied by state ownership. In my experience state owned organisations provide better quality journalism than their commercial counterparts, and the gap is widening as commercial media race each other to the bottom.
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#35Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
Solves easy problems at large scale
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#36Larry-Sergey & Google is far more feature proof company Amazon - Solves easy problems at large scale Google - Solves complex problems at large scale
Google -- solved a single very important problem really well by applying a well known tool (SVD and graph networks) to a novel example, also made android, otherwise not very exciting. Furthermore, brick and mortar problems are hard -- things break, rot, get lost, require staff to move them around, etc. Not to poo-poo Google or any other pure software company, but it isn't harder because its on a computer, it's actual…
>also made android
This is a common misconception. Google didn't "make" Android. They acquired it by purchasing Android, Inc.
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#37It's a good question: who in technology is afraid of Bezos? While a lot of technology leaders might admire Bezos for his leadership of Amazon, I wonder how many fear him. Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut. For example, despite years of effort, the Kindle Fire has not significantly harmed the market share or margin of the iPad. Goo…
> Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut.
Since when is AWS not a juggernaut...
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Think about how much you hear about Yahoo in 2013. Think about how much you heard about Yahoo in 2011.
Everytime I hear about Yahoo it's because we're all collectively cringing at yet another ridiculous thing they did. Or is that not how everyone feels?
It's funny that's the case. But Yahoo is picking up on demographic that's slowly but surely adapting the Internet. My mom being a great example. She's been on the Internet as long as I have, but I would say she's adapting now. Unfortunately using Facebook, but also Youtube and all of her services from Yahoo(mail, news, search).
Say what you will about Marissa Mayer(I don't know enough about her). But she's making right decision on who her market is and although growth may be slower, I can see a larger number of people retiring that are going to be spending all sorts of time on Yahoo. Since HN is the anti-thesis of the Yahoo demographic, I think there is a more nuanced and emotional approach that Yahoo is taking. But I could be wrong.
edit: Also if anyone from Yahoo read this, please fix the problem with Yahoo mail and Chromium in Linux. My mom is annoyed by being asked to upgrade(Safari or Firefox) and asked to change the theme.
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#39It's a good question: who in technology is afraid of Bezos? While a lot of technology leaders might admire Bezos for his leadership of Amazon, I wonder how many fear him. Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut. For example, despite years of effort, the Kindle Fire has not significantly harmed the market share or margin of the iPad. Goo…
> Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut. Since when is AWS not a juggernaut...
Rackspace is slowly eating AWS up. Their customer service is unmatchable.
Re: Who’s afraid of Jeff Bezos?
#40It's a good question: who in technology is afraid of Bezos? While a lot of technology leaders might admire Bezos for his leadership of Amazon, I wonder how many fear him. Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut. For example, despite years of effort, the Kindle Fire has not significantly harmed the market share or margin of the iPad. Goo…
> Most of what Amazon does, does not compete with technology companies. In the few places they do, they're not a juggernaut. Since when is AWS not a juggernaut...
They're definitely a leader in the space, but its not like it isn't a commodity. Great, you've got a durable object store and virtual machines. I'm not Netflix, I'm not Reddit. I don't need to scale to a bazillian users, and even if I did, its going to be with Akamai and the whole damn site mostly static (I'm looking at you, Healthcare.gov).
So, yeah, AWS is awesome. But its not like others can't/aren't catching up.