Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper is basically Amazon's answer to Starlink. Now, many reports suggest that it will start between late 2026 to early 2027. Now that SpaceX is innovating and improving their technology so much, I personally think that It'll be hard for Amazon to get into this market and scale. Unless, they do something where they bundle it with their Amazon Prime Subscription meaning 2 tiers 1 which is the normal Amazon Prime tier and the other which is the Amazon Prime + the internet service. And, if they can be somewhat successful and/or scale quickly do you think this can be a major part of Amazon's revenue? Lmk what you think. I'm down for a discussion in the comments!

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u/RBR927 3 1 day ago

Competition is good.
u/marriedparadox 3 1 day ago

the prime bundle idea is actually clever, they already got millions of people locked into that ecosystem so the customer base is already there starlink has a big head start but amazon has deeper pockets and they can afford to lose money for years while they figure it out, that's how they killed so many competitors before
u/pickle9977 -1 1 day ago

Amazon doesn’t have deeper pockets, they have hundreds of billions in debt, that’s not a measure of depth of pocket, it’s a future obligation that has to be paid back.
u/pickle9977 -2 1 day ago

Amazon is such a failure in this space it’s completely incompetent. Not only did they recently buy a company to replace essentially everything built internally, Bezos is so sick of waiting he’s been investing in other competitors. This is a great example of how inept the company is, they have been working on this for so long and are soooo far behind not because it’s hard but because internally there are like four paper pushers for every engineer and half of all of the engineers are just paper pushers in disguise.
u/RBR927 2 1 day ago

Oh, this is easy?
u/pickle9977 -2 1 day ago

Yes, yes it is. Starlink took three years to launch its first satellites, another year for operational satellites and launched publicly within five years. Kupier, now named Leo has been going on for seven years and have only managed to get a handful of satellites launched. Either the people that work for Amazon are way dumber than starlink (unlikely) or Amazon is organizationally incompetent (obvious). It’s the exact same product.
u/RBR927 3 1 day ago

We went to the Moon in 1969, why aren’t we back there or on Mars by now? Is SpaceX incompetent?
u/pickle9977 0 1 day ago

Yes, yes it is. We went to the moon using paper and slide rules, we have the computational and engineering talent to do it, we just can’t actually get our shit together to get there. It only took eight years for the US to go from nothing to a man on the moon. Given the increase in compute, our experience and advances in material science, sending someone to the moon shouldn’t take more than a couple of years tops.
u/RBR927 1 1 day ago

But you see, the thing is, space is hard.
u/pickle9977 1 1 day ago

It wasn’t so hard that we couldn’t figure it out before. Did space change?