Are you saying that as "someone who heard it" or from experience because its simply not true.

Most manufacturers only have one location, in China.

This is more than likely not the case. Most likely Amazon received a return and simply resold it as new. The seller has nothing to do with that.

We've sold on Amazon for over 3 years now. We are in the process of shutting down that channel.

Our losses due to fraud simply make the channel not worth it.

* They buy products, pull parts out that they need, and return the rest. (ex: camera, steal battery, return camera)
* They buy our product, put some other similar but cheaper product in the box and return it.
* They use us as a warranty. Buy new one, return three year old one with different serial.

Our volume through our own warehouse and website is about 50% less. But without the fraud the profit is about the same.

We won't miss Amazon.

Any customer that stays on the product at this point just has money to burn.

Not really. I want one streaming service. That means I only want to subscribe to one. I don't care if multiple exist.

I don't care if there are 10 services, as long as they all have the same access to the same content.

Let me make a simple analogy that you might understand. Imagine if radio or music streaming services were like today's movie services. Imagine if listening to Def Leppard required one service, but Bon Jovi required another, and Van Halen required yet another.

You've been so radicalized you spend your entire waking hours thinking about politics. This is not healthy. You need to seek help.

We don't want 20 different streaming services! We want just one. Netflix was (almost) perfect before corporate greed ruined things. Now we're all back to sailing our pirate ships on the open seas...

It seems like 99% of every new business unit they open, closes 2 years later.

ONE HIT WONDER? Just their one hit keeping them afloat?

The problem with government is that they will put in place people who are at best minimally qualified for the role. Like when Trump appointed his kids to lead things they had no idea how worked.

Almost every car made in the past 3-4 years has all of the these same abilities. Your Ford, GM, Toyota, Lexus, Tesla, etc. can be started, from an app. That app doesn't talk to your car. It talks to a server at Ford. That server sends the instructions, updates, etc. to you your car/truck. That means F/G/T/L/T/etc. can start, update, or unlock your car anytime they want by writing some code on their end (if they don't already have it).

Now... apply that to tons of other devices. Cameras, TVs, routers, etc. This is not a new idea. They are just using it in a new and novel way.

The idea was amazing. The execution was ridiculously awful.

Have you managed a data center before? Having multiple vendors for every platform, service, or device is not reasonable and would add tremendous costs and labor overheads.

Broadcom wants most of the customer base to switch to another platform. The literally don't want you as a customer.

They've already said in public filings their goal is to milk their top 600 biggest clients, who will be unable to migrate for possibly 5-10 years, while providing maintenance only updates going forward.

VMware is dead. We have to move on.

There was a movie with Scarlett Johansen where they did this called "The Island".