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ucv4523 02/05/2013 10:15 PM Report
Jeff says Amazon isn't competitor obsessed!
LOL!!! Easy to do, when you don't have any competitors.
All kidding aside,
Amazon's a great company; and the decision to adopt Android for the Kindle brand instead of creating their own OS seems to be working.
Blackberry on the otherhand was too proud to marry Android to the Blackberry brand.
Jeff was smart enough to see that if Apple is squeezing your head, Android is your salvation. Blackberry's CEO doesn't seem to get it.
We'll see in 12 months whose strategy was right.
RichardSutton2 12/05/2012 02:36 PM Report
As an author and also a retired merchant, I am reassured by Mr. Bezos comments. The shift away from customer-centric business to profit-centric business has almost destroyed our economy and stifled creativity. Amazon may annoy many people, but what I see in Jeff Bezos is a return to the kind of thinking that created great merchants and great companies. Macy's Gimbels, and yes, WalMart have always been customer driven, and knowing that the "new" paradigm is informed from the past is a very good sign.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 11/20/2012 02:46 AM Report
Brainstorming is his favorite thing—sitting in front of the white board, selecting the right people and having the right process.
Charlie, perhaps we can watch this and have Eric Kandel be the color commentator.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 11/20/2012 02:43 AM Report
The legacy he wants is World’s Oldest Man.
He needs to visit a couple of nursing homes then he would put some caveats on that legacy.
Charlie, remember when William F. Buckley told you he was ready to die?
SharkswithfrikingLazers 11/20/2012 02:39 AM Report
Charlie, it is time for a "staple a green card to a diploma" montage.
You have the footage from the MULTITUDE of guests.
Perhaps an intern can edit it and put it on YouTube and we can all sign a petition which calls attention to it since Congress somehow hasn't gotten the message.
SharkswithfrikingLazers 11/20/2012 02:36 AM Report
Amazon.com is a jewel. I use Google and Wikipedia for brain power but Amazon.com is a GREAT source for my consumerism. It is too bad they are charging state sales tax now because this may hurt them (and my buying).
Amazon.com did cross over to the brain side when I was checking out books regularly from the library. It served many times as the card catalog. Amazon.com is so user friendly that it was easier to find things on the website than on the system available in the libraries--especially when a request must be made for materials outside the local system.
So for buying, or for finding, Amazon.com has served me well but STATE SALES TAX IS A NO-NO.
vongleichent 11/19/2012 04:56 PM Report
You can tell right away that Jeff must have an very high IQ. Seems like all this individual are genius in some way.
REMant 11/19/2012 12:20 PM Report
I ordered a couple of things from Amazon just this week which I couldn't find elsewhere, at lower than normal prices, too, with free, fast shipping. And users there answered a question I couldn't get a satisfactory answer to even from the manufacturer, itself. I took the time, myself, to write a lengthy review of my last purchase, which there seemed a lot of online indecision about, and got a nice response to it.
Altho it has a ways to go, IMHO, Amazon has gotten a lot better at the mundane business of fulfilling customer expectations for such information and service, as indeed have several other big Internet sellers, if not all, and it's still possible to get so frustrated on some of their websites, such as Target.com, that you feel like throwing something at the screen, in part because they've astutely avoided any other way of expressing one's feelings. You can examine their press releases and stock quotations, tho.
I am still PO'd Amazon wiped out a neglected gift certificate several years ago, however. I think they have a trifle more money than I have. And altho I suppose they don't want to be just the place for hard-to-find stuff, I don't think I'd be opening stores, and certainly not now, unless maybe little ones to sell their devices, for which I think mall kiosks would do as well, if not better. I thought, as well, there was a trifle too much self-congratulation here, along with, Democratic mercantilism - the latter not having any real idea of the diversity the champion. I mean, how can stealing ppl from other places be considered diverse? Only if you have no idea where the diversity comes from.