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Re: Amazon Home Services
#2Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants)
Remember Amazon Movie Listings?
Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.)
Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search)
Remember A9? (Amazon's answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being used as a verb once on The OC in 2006ish.)
Amazon makes dozens of "products" every year, to do press releases, to sell more Amazon stock/keep the stock price high. Most of these products never become real.
Even AWS was a fake product-- they claimed it was "the infrastructure that ran Amazon.com", which was a straight up lie. (I worked for the company at the time.) All they had was S3. This product stuck to the wall and grew and became a real product over time, and so they backfilled.
This strategy works for them because when something disappears (remember google glass? Yeah, it really is gone, it made no sense to begin with, but they won't admit it) .... nobody remembers it.
Amazon wasted so much time on nonsense. We had 4 reorgs a year and a lot of chaos because they were constantly spinning up random teams for BS initiatives -- many of whome were nothing more than a press release.
I'm not saying this is wrong (except the dishonesty about AWS)...just that Amazon announcing a product doesn't mean Amazon will be providing that product.
Re: Amazon Home Services
#3Amazon can now let me hire a goat herder[0] to get my lawn eaten down. Is there anything they can't sell?
[0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBYDXXQ/ref=vas_sf_GoatGrazing
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#4Amazon can now let me hire a goat herder[0] to get my lawn eaten down. Is there anything they can't sell? [0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBYDXXQ/ref=vas_sf_GoatGrazing
> Is there anything they can't sell?
Sports physio treatments?
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#5Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants) Remember Amazon Movie Listings? Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.) Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search) Remember A9? (Amazon's answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being u…
I'm surprised to see this framed so negative. What they do is essentially being the lean huge startup. They launch a product, gather initial feedback, and if it turns out promising (like AWS) they double-down. If it doesn't work, they kill it. I think it's actually nice to see such a rapid-iteration product development done by a company with that many resources and talent.
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#6Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants) Remember Amazon Movie Listings? Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.) Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search) Remember A9? (Amazon's answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being u…
I'm surprised to see this framed so negative. What they do is essentially being the lean huge startup . They launch a product, gather initial feedback, and if it turns out promising (like AWS) they double-down. If it doesn't work, they kill it. I think it's actually nice to see such a rapid-iteration product development done by a company with that many resources and talent.
unless you are working on something and they tell you one it's done and you are getting reorged.
or you just end up on a product that makes no sense, but gotta do it because someone wants it/promised it.
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#7I think as an idea, it's great and there has to be a large market for it.
Of course, I'm in India and I personally might opt for a service like this. There are some startups here but noone of the size and 'integrity' as Amazon.
I'm not sure about the old-school family type people who'd rather go to a local plumber, or carpenter to get their work done.
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#8Amazon can now let me hire a goat herder[0] to get my lawn eaten down. Is there anything they can't sell? [0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBYDXXQ/ref=vas_sf_GoatGrazing
It can also eat down your shrubbery.
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#9Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants) Remember Amazon Movie Listings? Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.) Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search) Remember A9? (Amazon's answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being u…
I'm surprised to see this framed so negative. What they do is essentially being the lean huge startup . They launch a product, gather initial feedback, and if it turns out promising (like AWS) they double-down. If it doesn't work, they kill it. I think it's actually nice to see such a rapid-iteration product development done by a company with that many resources and talent.
The problem is that they are using the Amazon brand to position it. This helps in gaining initial traction, but in the end damages the brand in two ways:
- people do not know what to associate amazon with (it's just a bookstore, right?)
- when they kill off too many project, or too many projects fail, their brand value hurts.
There are other businesses that have many, many product lines, but the most succesful ones (Procter & Gamble, Unilever) almost never use their core brand name and just invent new brands. It makes it more difficult to start, but is better for your brands.
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#10I thought having local service providers would be cheaper. So I compared some of their prices with Walmart and Best Buy.
TV Wall Mounting (my won mounting bracket): Amazon: $229, Geek Squad: $149.99
Tire installation Services (2 tires): Amazon: $69, Walmart: $12 each
Car Stereo Installation: Amazon: $120, Best Buy: $64.99
I think there is a large market for local listings (e.g. Angies List, Groupon Local etc) but their prices are way too high.