Ben Thompson
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42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Number two, they've had they've always had like way more features than everyone else, just because they keep building features and like and so it's an eighty twenty thing where everyone complains about LBS and all this stuff's hard to use.
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And they're like, oh, they should cut everything else, but keep this one thing that I need.
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The one thing everyone needs is everybody else, right?
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Yeah.
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And you and everyone goes out and they're like, I am not gonna get locked into a cloud.
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I'm just gonna use commodity hardware.
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where I have a basic compute instance, a basic storage instance, so I could take it from Amazon and go to Azure if I want to or go to GCP.
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And then you're like, you're developing like, oh
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I could spend a few months building this, or I could just use this API that's helpfully there from Amazon that will solve this one problem.
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Oh, we're just doing this one thing.
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Don't do it too often.
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We don't want to get locked in.
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And then you fast forward and you're totally locked in.
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You're all using all their services.
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You're not going anywhere.
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And this is actually a super important point.
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But if you're not going anywhere, Amazon has pricing power over you.
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They have features that price power over you.
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And if there's not enough demand,
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and or if there's not an or if there's not enough supply in the market, they're going to have, you know, a a lot of pricing power.
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