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Comment by zozbot234 | Hacker News Reader

> From reliable firsthand accounts, it seem to be an accelerating shitshow.

That's quite surprising to me - if FAANG's are the standard, Amazon seem like one of the most technically competent (as well as competence and excellence being properly valued there). Yet OP is describing the opposite.

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What makes you think that? From the outside the products of all these companies work roughly as well. Not terrible, not outstanding. If anything I probably have strong feeling about not wanting to work with AWS — but I don’t have experience with the other clouds.

Netflix is shit. Apple is shit. Google is shit. Facebook is shit. For various reasons, but all from a consumer perspective.

At least Amazon Prime does what it says it will. Amazon works for the consumer. I don't buy from them physically anymore, but they are the only FAANG that still seems to offer some value.

I think they're all going to crash. Oh, and Tesla too XD

What do you mean my prime does what it says it will do? Shipping? They can't always do that. If you are comparing it to Netflix, Netflix is a superior product. I have to force so and restart prime almost everytime I use it. Amazon website has improved a lot over the years, but it is far from what it should be, for a company that just sells stuff Aws isn't bad, but I'm not sure if it is better than the alternatives.

It's an excellent point. Whatever else, Amazon delivers to the consumer what they promise to deliver. Pretty rare trait.

What is the measurement by which Apple, Google, etc doesn’t offer value but Amazon does?

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