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I'm glad I wasn't the only one who immediately thought of this.

And yes, some of us are either old enough that we remember DEBUG.COM, or we got started way too young.

They also don't really stand to benefit from doing so, unlike basically everyone else in this space.

They have access to a ridiculous amount of private customer data and so far have not shown any predilection to misusing that access.

To take an easy example that has actually had lawsuits I can link to, you must be unfamiliar with the lawsuits against Amazon for misusing sellers' data in order to undercut them with their own products... https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/13-bln-uk-lawsuit-acc...

There's zero reason to "trust" Amazon about anything. (And yes, I know the retail and AWS sides of the company are different, but it's still the same company. The same rot is always there, just shuffled around.)

this is not related to AWS, but merely to amazon's retail business and their sellers know and sign up for the deal when they sell via amazon.

every single retail company does this, they allow suppliers to sell the product using retails's infrastructure, and then retailer turns around and create private label products using sales data (Costco's Kirkland Signature, Walmart's Great Value, are just some examples)

Yes, but Kirkland's signature comes from the same factory. If I'm the factory owner and Costco vis going to guarantee me sales albeit at a slightly lower margin, so long as I slap a different sticker on it, that's different than from Amazon finding out which of my products sells best and then gets someone else to rip it off so I don't get paid anything.

That’s not the case at all. Kirkland just ditched Huggies making their diapers. They just introduced a breaded chicken tender nug to compete with one on the shelf.

They absolutely go out and find who can make the product and the quality and price they want. It’s not always an identical product to the brand name on the same shelf. Sometimes it displaces the brand name.

First of all, we don't know which factory kirkland's products are coming from. Even if they are coming from the same factory, who guarantees the same ingredients and quality control was used???

everything from amazon is coming from China, I dont understand why does a random person who resells stuff from Chinese factories via Amazon FBA feels entitled for exclusivity arrangement with Amazon?

Was such exclusivity encoded in some form of legally enforceable agreement ?

The retail side is completely different from AWS.

Right, you can only deduct R&D expenses that happen inside the U.S.

If you want to do R&D overseas, best to set up an overseas company.

Yes, and it went into effect retroactively for all of 2025.

Microsoft mice were always of exceptional quality...

... until the Surface era, when they either had bizarre designs that didn't work well (like Arc) or else were of cheap build quality and had problematic Bluetooth chipsets.

The first Bluetooth mouse I got was Microsoft's circa 2002, which was an amazing piece of tech back then.

... who can't run half of their large-scale software with an ancient version of .NET on Arm.

... yet they still struggle to try and port their code to a newer .net version that does run on ARM. And do a bunch of other work tasks that can utilize this hardware.

(But, you bring up a great point, regardless!)

Here is a particularly irritating example. Cabinet Vision, some CAD type of software.

Requires ancient .NET. That actually is available for Arm though.

Required Jet DB driver 2010, which doesn’t exist on Arm, although it’s only needed for the installer.

Requires SQL Server embedded 2012 and 2016, which don’t exist on Arm at all. Yep, both versions.

Also required PowerShell version 2, which was deprecated in 2017, although they magically figured out how to fix that once Windows 10 was EOL’d and Win. 11 doesn’t support v2.

The vendor has zero plans to ever support this on Arm.

They will eventually get their lunch eaten by a new competitor who decides to just release a macOS version.

I try to avoid Microsoft products these days (modern dotnet is pretty nice though), but from my past experience, I believe every bit of this and have run into all of these with other software, including the requiring of multiple versions of MSSQL Embedded, which is just unholy.

Not really Microsoft’s fault, except that their exceptional backwards compatibility means vendors get away with requiring 16-year-old libraries.

That level of local AI is also more or less what you need for competent autonomous robots, too. If your household robots are orchestrated from your phone, the local security and cloud convenience converge on a single device. No extra servers, etc, reduced cost, all that - local AI is a massive market amplifier.

Let me speculate - we are going in the weird direction of no private property unless you're an overlord that rents his property to peasants. I like to call it the revenge of communism. See how the market behaves in the llm space - it's more viable to share infrastructure than to own it. Imagine the private car revolution in the US was a bus revolution.

We’ve been dreaming about this since the days of talking about wifi mesh networking, but it seems to never happen.

I wouldn't call it "seamless"; a lot of Windows applications don't work. An example is some software packages common in the construction industry which want to install all kinds of ancient x86-only thing likes old ODBC drivers. So that wipes out one of the compelling reasons to have a Windows laptop. Quickbooks (Enterprise Desktop) is another example of one; not supported on ARM, although with some hacking you can get it to sort of work.

When you are making the absurd case you’ve trademarked “speed test”, yes, you have to take pains to mark it.