* Posts by daviskel

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'Break up Google and Facebook if you ever want innovation again'

daviskel

The author missed the point. Amazon is the Creativity Killer

I'm a big fan of Amazon but do not kid yourself, at the end of the day they will end up running the world if someone does not stop them. They simply have no other business model. Their goal is to acquire or produce and provide that which make their customers lives better. This means if you want or need something, Amazon will provide it for you, no matter who you are, no matter where you are, no matter what it is.

Think about that statement for a moment. I like Science Fiction. Amazon has made it cheap, easy to read, and has made it easier to get then the library. I can "own" a library and I don't even need to clutter up my house with actual paper. If I want someone to tell me a story Amazon acquired Audible and they have some of the best story tellers in the world writing the best books Ever written past, present, or future, told by the best actors you can find.

Amazon owns my library, well I own it but they own the space. They own they Data Space for my company, and probably for most of the readers of this email. They own the warehouses for everything they sell, They are actively working to provide the platform of the future where your desktop actively resides in their Cloud, and you will not even know it, but you will pay them a pittance to work on it.

If there was every a company in need of being broken up it was Amazon. Does anyone ever talk about it? Probably not.

That's what I call success.

Break them up.

Boo-yah.