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Originally Posted by Anthem
Very interesting. Jeff Bezos is someone who continues to fascinate me. My opinion of Amazon has been up and down over the years... but currently, it is sky rocket high.
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There was an interesting discussion in German TV a few months ago:
Why is there no German or European Amazon or Google?
Lots of explanations.
But my personal simple one would be:
Apple impressively did demonstrate: It's about the interaction of content and hardware.
Users buy iPads because of iTunes.
Users buy in iTunes because they have iPads.
And Amazon and Google perfectly understand this as well.
And Bezos brought it to the point: "We don't want to make our profits, when selling our units. We want to make our profits, when our hardware is used".
Absolutely fantastic.
Most other merchants, coming from Amazon's background, would have broadened their portfolio of products to resell. But inventing their own products? Definitely takes a visionary and some guts to do so...