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Originally Posted by sirbruce
The only thing more I can offer is, as someone who has worked with companies to try to get numbers out of them before, is that some companies really are reluctant to provide numbers that would put them in a positive light. Some of them value secrecy. Amazon in particular has been notoriously private historically about its internal business metrics.
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There is this to be said - information is power, and by controlling or concealing information, Amazon is denying power to its competitors. Apple does the same thing. This applies to positive information as well as negative information, I think.