With those two business units, Amazon can then subsidize short term loss making business strategies and M&A that focus on gaining an eventually obtaining a monopoly advantage such as grocery, general brick and mortar retail, shipping and logistics, tablets, etc.
The other companies in technology focus on PAAS, self driving cars and VR, etc. and haven't used their profit margins to extend into the real world thus far.
Is the 50% market share really necessary to claim who's a monopoly?
Maybe it's time to re evaluate the definition of monopoly.
I said that the "50% market share" seems to have flaws. Why not look at market caps?
Well, the last monopoly was broken in 1982, isn't odd that since then no other monopoly has ever existed?
You currently have monopolies that serve political agendas, that's a better stick I guess.
>Well, the last monopoly was broken in 1982, isn't odd that since then no other monopoly has ever existed?
Many monopolies have existed, like Microsoft for the most famous example. But there is no industry in which Amazon is a monopoly. Unless we were playing a witch hunt where we had to create a monopoly by thin air, I don't know what makes Amazon qualify as one.
Well my point is that 50% of a 100 million USD market is different from 50% of 1 trillion USD market. On the later you don't that much market share to pull your weight on the market.
>If companies were to be broken for profits, there are so many companies ahead of Amazon.
That wouldn't work, specially with the gymnastics that's done.
>But there is no industry in which Amazon is a monopoly.
Not even AWS?
Contrast this with Azure, which greatly benefited from the Windows and Office monopoly. I am pretty sure the Windows, AD, Office monopoly is the prime reason Azure is where it is today.
In a monopoly, a single seller controls or dominates the supply of goods and services.
The term you may be looking for is monopsony.
In a monopsony, a single buyer controls or dominates the demand for goods and services.
Amazon owns the monopoly of the ebooks for the KPF (Kindle Package Format), but it's not the monopoly of ebooks market.
Google has the monopoly of search, but doesn't have the monopoly of advertising.
The game has been exactly the same whether it is online or offline. You are simply swapping form Nationwide Stores to Nationwide Logistics.