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Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason. Amazon is famous for stealing whatever data they can get to promote their own business over their customers.

Some might consider Zoom giving Google, Amazon, or Microsoft insights into their business as the crazy decision.

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The comparison is misplaced. Google is not in Zoom business. Google barely happens to have a third grade product for video call, sold as part of their business tools package. The Google product has been shut down and renamed like 5 times since it was created and people don't even take it seriously.

Amazon and Walmart are selling the exact same products, they're competing head to head for every sale trying to get the customer to not shop on the other.

They recently reported 100 million daily active users and growing by 3 million a day.

I think people are taking it seriously.

Are we giving FB a pass for stealing competitor ideas? IG stories (from Snap), FB Room - Zoom Clone, etc.

In my view, those are not the same. If you have a product that I like and then I subsequently copy it then that's one thing. You store your data with me and then I use your data to give my product a competitive advantage over yours is completely different.

How so? Different in what sense?

Ideas are not protected under law. There's no "stealing" of ideas.

You can steal data, code, and customer lists.

> Walmart doesn't host in AWS for exactly this reason.

This isn't strictly the case. They do push some of their data to other SaaS providers hosted on AWS.

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