> Kuiper particularly looks like a long shot, because it's directly fighting against SpaceX's biggest strength: large-number launch economics. Of all the ways to try to get a foothold in the new space industry, the Kuiper approach is one of the least logical).

This misses Amazon’s strength - AWS. Launches are a fraction, granted a non-trivial fraction, but still a fraction, of actually running a space-to-ground network.

Who’s going to have the best latency to your enterprise infra in AWS DCs? Offer you “free egress to satellite links”?

The US military will want multiple providers.

List goes on.