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capkutay
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Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth...
And amazon has 125,000 employees running their supply chain. I wouldn't call that 'easy to scale' either.
outside1234
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And amazon barely makes any profit, so its not clear that their business actually does scale, if they didn’t have AWS.
jhall1468
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AWS is their business and it certainly scales. Their goal in retail is market dominance through convenience and that still costs a ton of money. AWS does not cost a ton of money.
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Their goal is not to make a profit or they would be
ekianjo
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Amazon is not just moving goods, they have AWS as well and that scales very well.
KptMarchewa
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Not more? Wikipedia claims Amazon has 647,500 employees.
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