ParadiseLost
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Never. Amazon's store is pretty minor compared to is cloud services.
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Never. Amazon's store is pretty minor compared to is cloud services.
It's the warehouses that are also organizing...that's a huge manpower sink for them. And might end up bighting them like it did the Big 3 US automakers.
ParadiseLost
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Yes, but it's a small part of their profits. Cloud services are like 2/3 of Amazon's profits.
All I'm stating is that Unionization with, likely, massively increase their expenditures and lessen profit...possibly into the negative just like the Big 3.
ParadiseLost
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What killed the Big 3 is that there cars suck compared to Japanese alternatives. You are literally burning money if you choose to buy pretty much anything other than a Toyota, Honda, or Subaru.
Trucks are pretty much the only exception in which you should choose a different brand.
This comes from the US playing protectionist and deciding to for quite a while basically use tariffs as a way to keep foreign automakers out; this resulted in a weak American industry that, when the tariffs were removed, quickly lost market share to superior foreign competitors.
Unionization in the US is usually not even the fault of Unions, but of the way the US government regulates Unions, which has made them awful compared to European unions, which are both cheaper and more effective.
And Toyota really put a shot across their bows with their new Tundra. Redesign is directly targeting the US truck market, and they're doing it pretty well.
Your Amazon Smart Home Surveillance Device that you treat as a pet has just improved in how it can serve Humans.
Oh my gosh! Now it'll be easier then ever to connect brands with potential customers! Thank you Alexa!
It's in its testing phase now but a broader rollout will occur in 2023.
www.neowin.net
Oh my gosh! Now it'll be easier then ever to connect brands with potential customers! Thank you Alexa!
It's in its testing phase now but a broader rollout will occur in 2023.
Amazon trains Alexa to spit out ads with answers to common questions
Amazon has announced “Customers Ask Alexa”, which is a subtle and creative way to serve ads to customers who ask questions to the virtual assistant. Brands will be able to answer common queries.
www.neowin.net
That's a *very* steep challenge, though. The U.S. truck market is utterly dominated by Ford and Chevy's designs, partly because they're *very good* and party because market segment features a downright absurd level of brand loyalty -- in many cases it's even *inherited, multi-generational* brand loyalty. It literally does not matter how good anyone else's pickup trucks are when so many rural Americans will *automatically* head straight for the local Ford or Chevy dealer because dad, granddad, great-granddad, etc always bought these.
Amazon says the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) is bullying their senior leadership.
Amazon accuses FTC of harassing executives including Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy
Retail giant hits out at US regulator’s tactics in probe into Prime memberships.arstechnica.com
Harassment or no, Bezos and Jassy must go (and testify) according to the FTC who dismissed Amazon's request that they do not testify in a case regarding the difficulty of cancelling Amazon prime memberships. Jeff Bezos of course being the founder and former CEO of Amazon and Andy Jassy the current Amazon CEO.
FTC dismisses Amazon's request to not force Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy to testify
The U.S. FTC has rejected Amazon's request to forego the testifying process for Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy. The company had previously claimed this order to be needlessly burdensome on the executives.
www.neowin.net
Amazon has spent over $16 billion on new content for its media streaming services which is over the $13 billion it spent in 2021.
This includes securing a deal for NFL's Thursday Night Football (a mere billion) and the estimated production budget of Amazon's Rings of Power television series which is supposedly $450 million. They've also spent lots of money expanding the amount of musical tracks available on Amazon Music as well as securing access to showing thousands of podcast episodes.
www.darkhorizons.com
This includes securing a deal for NFL's Thursday Night Football (a mere billion) and the estimated production budget of Amazon's Rings of Power television series which is supposedly $450 million. They've also spent lots of money expanding the amount of musical tracks available on Amazon Music as well as securing access to showing thousands of podcast episodes.
Amazon Content Spending Hits $16 Billion - Dark Horizons
Amazon has announced that its total expenses for TV, film and music content spending for 2022 was $16.6 billion – up 28% from $13 billion in 2021. Amazon reportedly disclosed the information in its annual report filed with the SEC Friday according to Variety. The jump is seen in large part due...
www.darkhorizons.com
ParadiseLost
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Amazon wants people cancelling their Amazon Prime account to be unthinkable.
I don't really get some of their decisions though.
Like Tomb Raider. Recently they announced they want to make Tomb Raider a cinematic universe. Spent $600 million acquiring the rights.
For starters, what the fuck? Tomb Raider's last 3 games barely broke even, not exactly suggesting its a prime target for sequels or a cinematic universe. On top of that, they are some of the most cinematic games there are - especially 2013 and Shadow.
The Angelina Jolie movies made sense because those earlier Tomb Raider games were mostly action platformers without much story. Modern Tomb Raider games are fairly story heavy, with huge set piece cinematic action moments that a movie is just not going to have the budget to match.
Overall, I think Amazon's Tomb Raider will flop harder than Rings of Power.
I don't really get some of their decisions though.
Like Tomb Raider. Recently they announced they want to make Tomb Raider a cinematic universe. Spent $600 million acquiring the rights.
For starters, what the fuck? Tomb Raider's last 3 games barely broke even, not exactly suggesting its a prime target for sequels or a cinematic universe. On top of that, they are some of the most cinematic games there are - especially 2013 and Shadow.
The Angelina Jolie movies made sense because those earlier Tomb Raider games were mostly action platformers without much story. Modern Tomb Raider games are fairly story heavy, with huge set piece cinematic action moments that a movie is just not going to have the budget to match.
Overall, I think Amazon's Tomb Raider will flop harder than Rings of Power.
That really depends.
If they respect their audience, and the fans, if they have good writing and if they don't go fucking woke and act like pricks it could be a success its all about the exicution.
ParadiseLost
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Ah yes, Amazon Studios are known just for that.
I mean, Phoebe Waller-Bridge has stated herself to be a Tomb Raider fan. But she's a dram writer, not an action writer.
Insanely enough, the Tomb Raider show is backed by dj2 entertainment, the people behind the Sonic movies. Apparently they've bought a fuck ton of video game licenses, as they are also working on adaptations of Disco Elysium, Ruiner, Sleeping Dogs, My Friend Pedro, Little Nightmares, Life is Strange, and It Takes Two.
Most of these I don't see the benefit of making a TV show. How the fuck do you encapsulate Disco Elysium into a TV show? The protagonists internal perspective is so important to the enjoyment of the story.
Life is Strange and It Takes Two are kinda similarly 'cinematic' in my mind, I can't imagine a show doing them justice.
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Tomb Raider is all about action and cleavage. Maybe they're hoping to grab a larger audience from the 'cheap thrills' category.
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
If you wanna make Jeff Bezos cry send him this image.
If you wanna make Jeff Bezos cry send him this image.
Going to need a lot more Bud Lights...
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
Amazon Tomb Raider will have a communist message a heavy handed environmental message and A cup bras.