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So many questions... the big one: How does Google make money from this?
Is Google's head of payment systems really called "Bill Ready"?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 204 times, shame on me. https://killedbygoogle.com/
"Google kills products" - HN
99% of the people here would gladly work at Google. But what's the next best thing .. downplay the company you couldn't get into :) Carry on !
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me 204 times, shame on me. https://killedbygoogle.com/
Slashdot.org was plagued by people posting "first post" to every story, so they implemented an automatic "first post" comment to each article, that was removed as soon as other comments appeared. Maybe this comment ("Google will shut this down like so many other products") should be similarly posted automatically to Hacker News on every Google story?
Free until they dominate the entire market
You really think Google -- who has floundered in this space for years -- is going to dominate a market that is already dominated by a company (Amazon) with a 50% larger market cap? Walmart and Target have been trying to chip away at Amazon's lead, and they're only getting buried deeper in the dust. Google doesn't exactly have a reputation for entering new markets and dominating them, either...
Mobile OS's (Android)
Online Video (Youtube)
Online Maps (Google Maps)
Webmail (Gmail)
None recently, granted.
Free until they dominate the entire market
You really think Google -- who has floundered in this space for years -- is going to dominate a market that is already dominated by a company (Amazon) with a 50% larger market cap? Walmart and Target have been trying to chip away at Amazon's lead, and they're only getting buried deeper in the dust. Google doesn't exactly have a reputation for entering new markets and dominating them, either...
So yes, they have a huge potential.
They always have sucked doing things IRL, so it's not a certain win. But owning the road to the competition shop is powerful.
Not to mention they can force the hand of small shops: use our API or go down in ranking.
Free until they dominate the entire market
Or wipe out the low commission fee competition in the payment processor space. If the US had better anti-competitive enforcement I feel like this is akin to the Internet Explorer/Netscape/Microsoft case, in them using one monopoly (search) to take over another market (same hook too: "free"). Plus you know they're going to reward sites for using this in their search rankings (or just outright place them at the top).
Free until they dominate the entire market
Earlier quoted context omitted.
At first, me too. But amazon doesn't have a search monopoly, millions of android devices, google maps, or youtube to drive the sales. Neither do they have the huge amount of data google already have on people. Now there is a possibility that google fails because sales require a lot of IRL stuff they suck at. So maybe it will be a balanced game. But if they win, it's going to be a nightmare. Unrelated, but I'm also qu…
> But amazon doesn't have a search monopoly, millions of android devices, google maps, or youtube to drive the sales. Don't forget that something like ~70% of their income comes from AWS. They may not be as visible as Google on the net but they are pretty much the largest provider of web services.
This is 'The Anti-Amazon Alliance' as Ben Thompson puts it. Curious to see if customers will adopt it. I think it lacks two key value props of Amazon: uniform guarantees (Amazon guarantees regardless of seller) and super fast shipping.
If this venue proves reasonably well functioning and promoted, big sellers will have to build their presence there, too, bringing in customers and more credibility.