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mountaindewslave on 23 May 2015
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sabvre42 said:
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That makes it 50 billion $ overpriced.

If the damn thing has never made 1 cent of profits, how the hell is it valued at 50 billion $?

 

I think alot of this cloud crap is highly overrated.

I think MS is better off not tossing all that cash out the window.

Its a cloud company, but yeah its overhyped. Amazon doesn't make money either, yet its worth 200 billion. I don't know why investors put their money into these companies, especially since they don't make money; and it can get quite risky.

Amazon does not make money?


Well maybe thats kinda providing money for amazon so it can kill all the competition (other companies need profit) and then if all competition is gone price  everything $99999999

Are you really calling Amazon a monopolistic predator because it doesn't run on 30% margins like Apple?

 

Amazon is a boon for the consumer, and the company is innovative too.

ehhh at some point you do have to criticize a company for using insanely low margins to kill the competition. I appreciate the short term advantages it provides consumers, but in the long run it will just hurt the consumers. why? because while we get low prices from Amazon now, their competition (mostly storefront retailers, and other smaller online 1st and 3rd party stores) suffer and fail because they can't match said prices. eventually those businesses will die out from worse sales and then we will be left with only a few big retailers like Amazon. at the point in which an 'Amazon' does that they are then able to basically determine market prices on goods because of the limited competition. obviously Amazon is primarily targeting the online market but still

its similar to why Wal-mart gets a lot of heat. low prices are great, sure, but when you're literally selling some things so low that you LOSE MONEY as a company, simply to eliminate the competition, that's not really good business. and in the end it hurts the consumer because in capitalism the more competition there is the more reasonable the rates/prices. not a set rule obviously, as sometimes the quality of things will make higher prices appropriate depending

and when a Wal-mart (or its equivalent in any field) is paying its employees the absolute minimum or simply just manufacturing everything overseas for practical slave labor it begins to become both a short term ethical problem and a long term consumer-price problem that will bite back in the future

 

at any rate the same sort of applies with Microsoft, they obviously were considering purchasing Salesforce to become dominant in cloud services