Not quite. Firstly, retail is not a huge loss maker like people make it seem. Amazon has shown in the past that it can make a 6.6% margin on retail (which is fairly huge). Even right now North American retail makes about as big a profit as AWS, losses are coming from international retail.
So in the end you can imagine Amazon being something like 6-7% margin on retail (that's not assuming any technological paradigm shifts like fully automated warehouses, amazon owned banking and payments, fully amazon owned logistics) and 25% margins on AWS.
On top of that you have a fast growing ads business that is destined to rival Google and Facebook (if not displace them) with fat margins, and a big chunk of the smarthome/IoT market via Alexa and AWS.
What do you think about Google not allowing iOS or Firefox to become cast sources, or FireTV to act as a cast target? Does that piss you off, or are your feelings of outrage only limited to our own personal convenience?
"not carrying them would mean that there's no more free market and no competition in the field. Any new (or existing) player couldn't enter the market no matter how good their product is."
Um, go to the Apple website and order it or Walmart.com/Jet.com? If Amazon started purchasing or shutting down all other retailers, then it would be a monopoly. Simply being more successful than them doesn't make it so.
I wanted Amazon to remake car rental after standing in line at a car rental place for 1.5 hours in for a Convertible I'd booked to go to Coachella, and then being told that they'd given it away to the people right in front of us because we were 'late' (WTF we were in line for 1.5 hours).
Amazon already delivers to local shops as 'Amazon Lockers' in India. Turns out Americans are lazier, distances are longer, and they want deliveries at home.
No, it asks for a confirmation at the very least, and a voice code as well. Hacker news is filled with morons who know little to nothing, just like any other sufficiently large online community.
Turn lights/switches/home-automation stuff on/off.
Read stuff from Audible.
One command music streaming. (Google Now will bring up a link for you to click)
Shopping. (Reorders prime items from Amazon)
Coming Soon:
Integrates natively with all sorts of apps - (There's an SDK in the works)