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What's Walmart's market share of online retail? Conversely what's Amazon's share of physical detail? (Preferably excluding whole foods since that's an arguably different business to selling cheap electronics and other junk) It's as if the two companies operate in... different spheres!
Did you mistake my comment with someone else’s?
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Did you mistake my comment with someone else’s?
Their comment is a completely clear and coherent reply to yours, there is no reason to think this is a mistake.
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I banned myself from using Amazon several years ago. I feel that if everyone did the same, the world would be a better place.
I now have a policy of using Amazon third. If I can get the thing I want directly from the manufacturer, that's best. If I can get it from some some less dominant vendor at a reasonable price and schedule, that's fine. Otherwise, Amazon. Doing this for a while has increased my concern about Amazon, as a surprising number of things are only available from them.
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Their comment is a completely clear and coherent reply to yours, there is no reason to think this is a mistake.
The opinion is noted? I don't know who this is but presumably 'IntelMiner' is a different person with their own views and rationale for writing.
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The opinion is noted? I don't know who this is but presumably 'IntelMiner' is a different person with their own views and rationale for writing.
It is clear they didn't make a mistake and meant to reply to you.
Repeating the previous opinion with slightly different wording seems a bit odd.
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It is clear they didn't make a mistake and meant to reply to you.
Did you even read my reply? Repeating the previous opinion with slightly different wording seems a bit odd.
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Did you even read my reply? Repeating the previous opinion with slightly different wording seems a bit odd.
Walmart is a smaller competitor to amazon in online retail. You are confused and need to review the comments in this thread.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Amazon for many years. Context: It’s been a few years but I built many of these counterfeit detecting systems from greenfield. Including the early architecture integrations with the ads teams. AMA (I can’t always say everything, but I’ll answer to my best ability in the morning)
What proportion of counterfeits could you detect? Was there any concern on liability as presumably Amazon can detect lots of counterfeits but choose not to? Was there any effort to prevent sellers they know are selling junk, or going to sell junk, from using the site?
This is an impossible question to answer. The numerator was a known number of counterfeits but the denominator is entirely unknown.
> Was there any concern on liability
Yes many brands, including Apple, would threaten to sue. Some even did but as a developer I wasn’t involved in those details to know much.
> Was there any effort to prevent sellers they know are selling junk, or going to sell junk, from using the site?
Absolutely! There were entire organizations of 100s of people devoted to just this task. Including appeal pathways for sellers to get back access to the site.
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This is not true. Sure, Apple is sometimes a beta customer of new features in Brand Registry. But in general is not the only company that gets this treatment from Amazon and Apple’s competitors can sign up and use almost all the same services through Brand Registry. Source: Its been a few years but I built many of these counterfeit detecting systems from greenfield. The biggest problem really has been brands not want…
> But in general is not the only company that gets this treatment from Amazon and Apple’s competitors can sign up and use almost all the same services through Brand Registry. This is not true. From the article: "I'm surprised — that's strange," a former senior Amazon advertising manager told Insider, referring to Apple's clean product and search result pages. "I wouldn't have the discretion to offer something like th…
However, it is offered to Brands that own legally protected Intellectual Property. Through Brand registry Brands can have their search pages protected when the customer searches for legally protected keywords (eg AirPods).
Context: I was the lead engineer that worked with the Ads teams and designed the architecture to integrate Brand Registry and Ads systems.
Even when I worked there (ie while the feature was still in Beta), Apple was not the only Brand to get this treatment. There were many other Brands in the beta for this feature.
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Ok, there are two issues here: 1. Amazon refuses to hold themselves accountable for the products they sell—they advertise one thing but sell you another, clearly indicating they have no idea what they're actually selling. 2. Apple relies on legal protections to artificially inflate the pricing of their products. AirPods aren't much better than bluetooth headphones sold for a tenth the price, and they are straight-up…
I don't know of any third party options to Airpods that: 1. pair instantly without problems to my apple devices 2. intelligently know when to switch between my phone to my laptop 3. intelligently know when to switch from car bluetooth to headphones 4. is compatible with "Find My" 5. has magsafe charging 6. has same sound quality and sound cancellation with above features these are all very important to me and my expe…