1.2M views · Jan 20, 2015 · 15:52 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2015–2020
Scott Galloway's DLD15 talk assessing the competitive positions of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. He argues about where each is strong and weak, including Amazon's need for physical retail.
Why Hacker News points people here: Shared in 2015 threads as an insightful framework for strategic moves by the big tech companies.
“very insightful video on why Amazon has reached a point where they must make a brick and mortar acquisition”HN comment, 2015
“very insightful video on why Amazon has reached a point where they must make a brick and mortar acquisition”
Scott Galloway on why Amazon needs brick and mortar
Scott Galloway talked about this at last week's DLD. You can hear his points and arguments at 6:50 -very insightful video on why Amazon has reached a point where they must make a brick and mortar acquisition this video
“Some of the above points are explained by Scott Galloway in this presentation”
Galloway's points on Android versus iOS consumers
I feel like this luxury Android watch will fail for several reasons: - the average Android device consumer has less money to spend compared to the average iOS device consumer. - full control of the device is not in the hands of a single company, which will likely result in bad compromises. - to me at least, Android is not something I associate with "luxury". Some of the above points are explained by Scott Galloway in this presentation: this video
Galloway segment on luxury car premiums
You shouldn't be using the X for comparison, but the Y (which is closer to $45k, $55k for the Performance version that puts you close to muscle car territory). EDIT: (HN Throttled, can't reply, replying here) I agree there is a premium, but I do not agree it's considerable considering a) people buy a payment and b) we're in a low interest rate environment where people can stretch for a luxury car like a Tesla due to low carrying costs of the auto debt. Why? this video (13:17-14:15 is the relevant time window)
