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Amazon takes on the fight

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2025 9:05 am
by Bappy11
The battle between Google, Apple, eBay and other parties gets a lot of attention. Also here on Frankwatching. A party that is often forgotten is Amazon. Is this company perhaps the real winner of the online wars?

Amazon is one of the few companies that can compete with Google in the technological field. It has gigantic server parks and a huge IT backbone, on which numerous services run. In fact, Amazon competes with a large number of parties, as the infographic below shows.

Amazon's tablet (Kindle Fire) competes with Apple's iPad and Android tablets. bulgaria phone number list The sales figures of the tablet are enormous. In recent weeks, approximately 1 million Kindle Fires have been sold per week . With this, Amazon leaves Apple's iPad far behind. Where Google works with Google Docs and Apple with iCloud, Amazon has the Cloud Drive. In the field of music, Amazon MP3 competes with iTunes and Google Music. Netflix has to watch its step in the field of online films and TV series because of Amazon Unbox. For online payments, Amazon has its own checkout service, which competes directly with PayPal. Finally, eBay has a formidable competitor in Amazon.com.

In the infographic of CPC Strategy you can see in which markets Amazon is competing with Google, Apple, Netflix, PayPal, eBay and many others. If Amazon succeeds in winning in some of the mentioned markets, then they could become the real winner of the online wars.

PS Amazon is also reportedly coming with a Dutch website in 2012. If this is really the case, this will also be a challenge for parties like Bol.com on the Dutch market.