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“Indeed, to the extent [that Whole Foods’] Mackey has compared Amazon to Waterloo is a valid analogy, Amazon is much more akin to the British Empire, and there is now one less obstacle to sitting astride all aspects of the economy.”
– “Amazon’s New Customer,” and “Amazon Go and the Future,” by Ben Thompson, Stratechery
“Obsoletion – where a cheaper, single-purpose product is replaced by a more expensive, general purpose product – is just as common as ‘disruption’ – even more so, in fact. Why the Mac (and PC), iPod, and iPhone weren’t so much disruptive as they were obsoletive.”
– Ben Thompson, “Obsoletive,” Stratechery
