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Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam.

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Every single Amazon product is a half-arsed mess off things that barely function. They're basically just a delivery company that charges a percentage of the package value now.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

They also charge storage fees to keep your products on their shelf in the warehouse.

Something like 70% of their net income comes from AWS that pretty much runs a huge portion of the internet.

[–] SamboT@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

This is why you never really trust anything from a lemmy comment kids.