It’s Hard to Pick Winners When Anyone Can Play
July 25th, 2006
This piece from the always-informative ProgrammableWeb.com is thought-provoking. Everyone is watching Google and Yahoo, but maybe Amazon or eBay will wind up being the main provider of application development infrastructure for the web. After all, General Motors is now one of the world’s biggest providers of financial services…
Amazon particularly I think has tremendous potential as a company. eBay I’m not so sure about though. They bought up Skype recently but I have no idea what their plans are for it. Amazon on the other hand doesn’t make many waves in the press but is always rock solid profitable. Their “marketplace” that independant vendors can use as an online store was also the only place I could find a couple of things on the internet and ended up buying through them. It’s one of the only “web services” I’ve given money to.