> In fact, I can’t think of a single industry, other than bookselling, that Amazon has entered with significant negative repercussions for the incumbents in that industry.
uh.. aws?
uh.. aws?
> Amazon is great at inventing new categories, from online bookselling to cloud-computing services to voice-commanded personal assistants.
The author is categorising AWS as a new category more-or-less created by AWS, rather than an existing category they entered and disrupted.
I'm not sure I 100% agree, but it's still a reasonable position to hold. VPS providers existed before AWS, but AWS is much more than just another VPS provider.
Unfortunately this is really just an opinion piece. I’d like to see some empirical work examining Amazon’s impact on different markets.