...with brief, occasional, italicized and sometimes gratuitous commentary…
• The Seattle Times reports that "users of Amazon.com’s Alexa will now be able to order items for near-immediate delivery using the voice-activated digital assistant, another sign of how the e-commerce giant is trying to transform what recently was just a bold technological bet into a cash register.
"Prime Now, as the one- to two-hour delivery service is known, offers a more limited selection of items than the all-encompassing Amazon.com website, but it’s geared to satisfying immediate needs ... The move underscores Amazon’s knack for wrapping together seemingly disparate parts of the multipronged company to turn a buck. It also shows the profit-making potential of a talking artificial-intelligence experiment that’s still in the early stages of learning how to bring home the bacon."
Exactly. That's an incredibly important observation ... so let's repeat the phrase here for emphasis: ... Amazon’s knack for wrapping together seemingly disparate parts of the multi-pronged company to turn a buck.
It is all those prongs that Amazon feels will give it a differential competitive advantage in the coming war against Walmart.
• The Seattle Times reports that "users of Amazon.com’s Alexa will now be able to order items for near-immediate delivery using the voice-activated digital assistant, another sign of how the e-commerce giant is trying to transform what recently was just a bold technological bet into a cash register.
"Prime Now, as the one- to two-hour delivery service is known, offers a more limited selection of items than the all-encompassing Amazon.com website, but it’s geared to satisfying immediate needs ... The move underscores Amazon’s knack for wrapping together seemingly disparate parts of the multipronged company to turn a buck. It also shows the profit-making potential of a talking artificial-intelligence experiment that’s still in the early stages of learning how to bring home the bacon."
Exactly. That's an incredibly important observation ... so let's repeat the phrase here for emphasis: ... Amazon’s knack for wrapping together seemingly disparate parts of the multi-pronged company to turn a buck.
It is all those prongs that Amazon feels will give it a differential competitive advantage in the coming war against Walmart.
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