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Same. Pretty bummed. I like HuggingFace, but there's no such thing as "partnership" when Amazon's involved.

Amazon has a clear reputation of "brand killer" (e.g., Zappos, IMDb, 6pm, WholeFoods, ComiXology, GoodReads, Roomba, Ring, Eufy, Woot, Sleep Jar, Fabric.com, Shopbop, Graphiq). Very much "if you can't beat'em, eat'em," although I sometimes wonder if it's negligence more than strategy. After all, their own services don't even work half the time (e.g., Prime Video and Music, Alexa), and its retail site is overrun with fake goods with fake reviews.

Good luck, HuggingFace. You'll need it, along with an active team of lawyers and a backup repo in Azure.

Edit: Adding additional sentiment below.

I desperately wish what I said above wasn't true. I am in no way faulting employees who work(-ed) on these projects with best of intentions. Persons who have endured understand, the problem is above, not necessarily below. Again I will strongly encourage HuggingFace to have backups and lawyers. Please don't give everything away; there is no good faith at present.

I worked at Whole Foods (before and after the acquisition), and I have been a Prime Video customer for as long as I can remember.

I remain a happy customer of both. Whole Foods is still expensive, and there are some things I want to buy that they still don't sell. And so I tend to do the majority of my shopping at HEB instead. But I acknowledge that Whole Foods is still objectively better in this space -- in virtually all regards other than price.

Prime Video works well for me, and always has. Almost as good as AppleTV. My wife and I probably watch more stuff on Prime Video than all the other services combined.

I haven't used any of the other services you mentioned, so I can't speak for them. But these two have always worked very well for me, and so far as I can tell, will continue to do so for a long time.

What will happen with the HuggingFace partnership, I have no idea. But I do look forward to watching this partnership play out and what each can do for the other.

I believe the examples you’re highlighting were acquisitions, not partnerships. This seems more along the lines of https://stripe.com/newsroom/news/amazon-and-stripe

I will say this. Many acquisitions begin as partnerships.

Shall we begin to unearth the "partnership" with Stripe, and its impact to customers? Perhaps a necessary discussion worth continuing elsewhere, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34863530...

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