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> I assume that Amazon...

I think you should reconsider "the benefit of the doubt".

I remember thinking similar things in the 90's with respect to microsoft.

I was talking to an ex-microsoft coworker about how windows would break compatibility with some 3rd party software. I said "engineers are under pressure to get some feature out, and they don't know how it affects every bit of software out there" or something", giving the benefit of the doubt to microsoft.

But he told me not to be naive, "microsoft would have meetings... How can we control this, how can we own this"



Hence the old joke mantra, "DOS isn't done, till Lotus doesn't run!"

At the time that was a joke, we didn't care what MS Excel was, and then, for years, we didn't know anything other than Excel.




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