<story><title>Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-now-valued-at-more-than-amazon-alphabet-and-meta-combined-11667430617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KerrAvon</author><text>Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as Amazon and Apple.&lt;p&gt;That Amazon isn&amp;#x27;t worth more is puzzling. I know I&amp;#x27;ve stopped buying from them unless I absolutely have to because I can&amp;#x27;t trust that the product I get is non-counterfeit and previously unused -- seriously, who sells used shavers as new, totally f&amp;#x27;in gross -- but has everyone else stopped buying too?&lt;p&gt;update: grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>potatolicious</author><text>Yes, for a lot of classes of products I simply do not buy from Amazon any more. The counterfeiting and inventory co-mingling (such that you can&amp;#x27;t even filter for trustworthy sellers) has destroyed a lot of Amazon&amp;#x27;s usefulness.&lt;p&gt;IMO Amazon&amp;#x27;s foray into 3P market-making will ultimately be seen as an attempt to grow the product that ends up killing the product.&lt;p&gt;Even besides the counterfeiting, there&amp;#x27;s just &lt;i&gt;so much crappy junk&lt;/i&gt;. Want lightbulbs? Wade through page after page of crappy no-name brands who all have fake&amp;#x2F;gamed reviews, so you can&amp;#x27;t tell the good from the bad. Want a name-brand lightbulb? Well, then we&amp;#x27;re back to the counterfeiting problem.&lt;p&gt;Even when I do buy from Amazon there&amp;#x27;s at least a 50% chance what I buy will be some cheap bullshit with faked reviews that will fall apart in under a month of use. Amazon is &lt;i&gt;worse&lt;/i&gt; than the Walmart discount bin.&lt;p&gt;Amazon has weirdly given me a newfound appreciation for traditional retailers. There is &lt;i&gt;value&lt;/i&gt; in the curation - in filtering bad products so that as a customer I can shop with confidence, and that even if I don&amp;#x27;t do too much research the product I buy will be &lt;i&gt;good enough&lt;/i&gt; - or at least authentic and safe.&lt;p&gt;The complete laissez-faire free-for-all model just results in me Googling for product reviews for the most mundane things I buy. It is a massive time-sink.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple now valued at more than Amazon, Alphabet and Meta combined</title><url>https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-now-valued-at-more-than-amazon-alphabet-and-meta-combined-11667430617</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KerrAvon</author><text>Google and Facebook are not really in the same businesses as Amazon and Apple.&lt;p&gt;That Amazon isn&amp;#x27;t worth more is puzzling. I know I&amp;#x27;ve stopped buying from them unless I absolutely have to because I can&amp;#x27;t trust that the product I get is non-counterfeit and previously unused -- seriously, who sells used shavers as new, totally f&amp;#x27;in gross -- but has everyone else stopped buying too?&lt;p&gt;update: grammar</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fshbbdssbbgdd</author><text>&amp;gt; That Amazon isn&amp;#x27;t worth more is puzzling.&lt;p&gt;The simple answer is that Amazon is the least profitable company in the list (even less than Meta in its current state). There are factors that excuse this, hence Amazon is actually valued very high compared to how little money it makes.</text></comment>