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Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by ctdonath »

forgotAgain wrote: post #127

It's becoming clear that the main competitor for iPad will come from Amazon. Apple will not be beat by a competitor on look and feel. Anyone who wants to compete with them will need to find their own area of strength. Amazon's strength is its years of experience with Amazon Web Services.

Recall the article opining that Amazon will be giving away Kindles to Prime members by November 2011 (so far, price drops are on a straight line to $0 then, and when asked Bezos said "oh, you noticed?" and smiled). Maybe they are gearing up for an iPad-type model, laying the groundwork for users buying into disparate parts (streaming video, cloud storage, ebooks, etc.) so when the convergence arrives millions of customers will find themselves already living a ubiquitous Amazon life.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by tzury »

I suspect this 5GB quote is a "fake", since there is no need to actually "copy" a song to the User's virtual drive, rather add a pointer to a copy already available on their platform, that is, if 1M users are buying a popular song, there is no need to clone this song million times, right?

Having said that, since there are smart people working on this platform on amazon, I am sure they don't make a physical clone, which raises the question already mentioned above, why limit to 5GB?

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

tzury wrote: post #132

I suspect this 5GB quote is a "fake", since there is no need to actually "copy" a song to the User's virtual drive, rather add a pointer to a copy already available on their platform, that is, if 1M users are buying a popular song, there is no need to clone this song million times, right? Having said that, since there are smart people working on this platform on amazon, I am sure they don't make a physical clone, whi…

There is no cap on music purchased from Amazon MP3 (going forward). The cap is on uploaded files, since there is no way to link your uploaded copy of Bad Romance with my uploaded copy of Bad Romance and know that they are the same.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by nw »

tzury wrote: post #132

I suspect this 5GB quote is a "fake", since there is no need to actually "copy" a song to the User's virtual drive, rather add a pointer to a copy already available on their platform, that is, if 1M users are buying a popular song, there is no need to clone this song million times, right? Having said that, since there are smart people working on this platform on amazon, I am sure they don't make a physical clone, whi…

Of course; Dropbox uses the same mechanism.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by DonnyV »

Amazon's storage plans are expensive compared to Google's

Amazon

5 GB (FREE)

20 GB ($20 / year)

50 GB ($50 / year)

100 GB ($100 / year)

200 GB ($200 / year)

500 GB ($500 / year)

1000 GB ($1000 / year)

Google

20 GB ($5.00 USD per year)

80 GB ($20.00 USD per year)

200 GB ($50.00 USD per year)

400 GB ($100.00 USD per year)

1 TB ($256.00 USD per year)

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by edanm »

jrockway wrote: post #85
wheels wrote: post #62

I think there are two really interesting things about this: • This is the first time Amazon has pulled together the two major branches of their business, retail and cloud infrastructure, into something (dare I say it?) synergetic. • Amazon is taking the first steps into the non-retail consumer web, where, if successful, they'll probably give a good scare to a handful of startups as they sweep across segments (and wit…

Not necessarily true, really. When you save your current location on a Kindle, that's handled by an app running on EC2. That's just an example: I am sure pretty much all of Amazon's products use the AWS infrastructure.

That's what AWS was developed for originally - running Amazon's products.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by mseebach »

jasonkester wrote: post #98
swombat wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: ( http://swombat.com/2011/2/22/predictability-of-closed-platfo... ) > I would argue that only one thing is entirely predictable about closed platforms: they will do whatever is in the business's interest. When building your business on someone else's platform, you should always assume that if it is in the platform owner's interest, they will shut you down tomorrow with no warni…

Agreed. It's generally a bad idea to build your entire product around a missing feature in the Big Guy's thing. The surprising thing about Amazon, however, is that they've gone out of their way to be the exception to that rule over the last 4 years. JungleDisk was the posterchild for "business that will only last until Amazon incorporates their product as a feature", and yet it continued to survive as Amazon released…

JungleDisk isn't a missing feature in Amazons product, it's a full product in it's own regard, and as thus, Amazon doesn't have a clear way of shutting them down or are even in a particularly beneficial position to compete with JungleDisk.

Also, JungleDisk already competing against a whole slew of worthy competitors, some of which run on S3, some of which don't.

Re: Amazon Cloud Drive and Amazon Cloud Player

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Post by mattmcknight »

jasonkester wrote: post #89

This is actually a little bit worrying as an entrepreneur building things on top of Amazon's Web Services. Amazon has always made a point of not building services on top of its Cloud offerings that directly compete with its users. Cloud Drive sets a precedent for them as the first time they've gone against that principle. There are lots of "low hanging fruit" companies that were built on the understanding that Amazon…

Actually, I don't believe anyone had created an Android music player that pulled songs from S3 and allowed purchase from the Amazon store. The opportunity was there, but it was not taken.
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