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I don't understand how this kind of petulant child behavior isn't the first topic for any journalist in contact with a Microsoft representative for any reason. It's as if Jeff Bezos was walking around with his weiner hanging out but somehow only got asked questions about Amazon's fourth quarter numbers.

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Probably because if they offend them too much they lose access to review samples, representatives, previews, events etc. which puts them a curve behind competitors that play nice so they get less clicks after the initial story.

Not only that, but I suspect if you offend 1 big tech player, they all talk and others will start ignoring you too.

Money talks, like it always seems to do. It is harder to trust any review or preview.

I never really understood the parable of "The Emperor's New Clothes" until the last few years, but at the deepest level it's about the ability for the powerful to create their own reality and enforce it on others. When do you think Bezos last heard the word "no" in relation to any question he's had?

This is probably an urban legend but I read somewhere that when Jeff Bezos uses Amazon, behind the scenes it actually routes him to a separate special instance that has all his feature requests in it, so nobody has to say “no” to him.

It’s just believable enough that I remember it. The higher up on the corporate ladder one is, the less possible it is to tell him “no.”

> It's as if Jeff Bezos was walking around with his weiner hanging out but somehow only got asked questions about Amazon's fourth quarter numbers.

Like Lyndon B. Johnson?

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