i wonder what amazon wants to do in commercial space with hardware. Is the HW devices purpose is just to bring more people to participate in their ecommerce business alone? will this HW thrive in market competition? #amazon #apple #microsoft #google #facebook
Agreed. All amazon hardware appears to be e-commerce centric only. They are not cutting edge nor sold for profit.
Internal solution that cost a lot less than outside, but not the best or cheapest after development cost included. It is to give pressure to vendor for cost reason.
You're only thinking SSD maybe. No other vendors make Echos, Ring, etc. They're made for ecommerce.
How about Annapurna labs which Amazon acquired few years back? Does anyone know if projects over there are exciting and have good potential?
From a guy I know who works there, they do high speed network chip with arm, xor engine, pcie for software defined hardware. It is not super innovative but home grown low cost alternative for external hardware.
"low cost" I'd say more but I shouldn't
If you want to do enterprise over commercial, AWS is dominating right now
Considering that its present sucks, yeah it should have a great future in hw lol
I think it has a really good future, as in, they will keep growing and cranking out cheap, mediocre products that will sell a lot. I absolutely do not envision them making any high-end/premium hardware that anyone will consider cool or trendy.
Appreciate the responses from everyone and I personally think amazon hardware’s gonna embed into our everyday living in coming years. Amazon is silently making a revolution and can’t wait for it to come!!
Amazon does a ton of hardware for AWS : https://www.geekwire.com/2017/amazon-web-services-secret-weapon-custom-made-hardware-network/ They make their own servers, switches, routers, storage arrays , etc
I think HW wise the FANG companies have bright futures in infrastructure (data centers). Except for Apple of course. They have great commercial HW
Which one? Just Apple only it’s phone.
Can you rephrase your question?
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I wouldn't bet money on Amazon hardware. Kindle was the only revolutionary product, everything else is mediocre and/or has a lot of competition (Alexa devices, fire TV, tablet)
Is Alexa Bluetooth speaker really mediocre? And geared only towards ecomm? I don’t think so ... it’s a money maker ...
Alexa is miles wide, but inches deep. The echo devices are pretty good though, but don't give direct revenue to the company