eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy

angry tapir writes "In the race to deliver online shopping purchases faster, drones don't impress eBay's CEO. 'We're not focusing on long-term fantasies, we're focusing on things we can do today,' John Donahue said in an interview. He was reacting to an interview Jeff Bezos, CEO of e-commerce rival Amazon, gave last weekend in which he said Amazon is investigating the use of drones for package delivery."

Re:Rivals?

[Trepidity]

They used to be much more differentiated, but they're overlapping more and more. Traditionally eBay's business was regular people selling used stuff, while Amazon's was first-party sales by Amazon. But both of them now do a lot of business in the third category of being basically the storefront for third-party businesses selling stuff. Everything from camera shop like Adorama, to third-party bookstores, now list a ton of items through both eBay and Amazon Marketplace, which is where they compete most directly.

Re:Sounds familiar

[HaZardman27]

Netflix began killing Blockbuster when shipping DVDs through the mail was still their biggest business. That's a product with mass and physicality; perhaps you have no idea what you're talking about?

Re:Sounds familiar

[Forty Two Tenfold]

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