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Comment on Amazon execs destroyed years of evidence before FTC action, agency says
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Split Amazon into retail and web services and then further split them into multiple different companies. Amazon has gotten way too big and stifling competition along the way.
Do the same to Facebook too while we’re at it. Fucking hate speech central.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even though I’m not a fan of Apple, I am not sure how it could be split. Unlike other companies mentioned, Apple is firmly in consumer electronics business, except for Apple TV which is a recent addition.
Their software products also exist to work only on specific hardware.
Also, only today I figured out that they have their own office suite lol. Don’t know why I never thought about it before
LufyCZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are heavily vertically integrated, even if split, they’d still work together as one company, because they simply don’t have any other choice.
There are many products all of these companies have that aren’t profitable (f.e. YouTube would either die or get enshitified to hell, can’t see Prime Music surviving without the rest of the Prime ecosystem etc.).
Splitting most of these up would not help anyone.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are many products all of these companies have that aren’t profitable
Splitting most of these up would not help anyone.
Good.
Companies have been using their profitable ventures to get dominant (or even solo) position in another market segment by undercutting the competition and then degrade their services as there’s no other alternative for customers.
This should force them (and customers) to reconsider their offerings and the pricing for it.
uis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Their streaming. Also split software development and hardware development.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But they only develop software for their hardware. Even after splitting, the Apple Software will only have one customer: Apple Hardware.
SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The moment you seperate AWS from the rest, the rest will shut down.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not just asking to separate AWS. I want AWS to further split into different companies.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why would you think that it isn’t profitable?
lutillian@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Because they sell the bulk of their products at a loss. They use their webservices platform to bankroll their retail platform so they can undersell even Walmart. Some years it dies turn a slight profit but generally it’s fairly negative but no matter what it doesn’t offset the pure profit that is the web services division. ir.aboutamazon.com/…/default.aspx
ammonium@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seriousl question, why do they then even bother with the retail platform?
jwagner7813@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gotta go further and deeper then that too. There are other, larger and more diverse companies that are hiding in plain site behind the more popular business like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc…
EnderMB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They (technically) already are. I work for Amazon, but I don’t get paid by “Amazon”. I get paid for the subsidiary I work for.
Splitting is fine, but it’s easily dealt with by megacorps. If anything, if the idea is floated, it’s probably because they’re absolutely fine with it.