"For instance, talking about all the different products AWS offers ..."
scAmazon Web Services don't offer products. There's not a single thing they sell that customers own after paying for it. What they offer is *services* (thus the name), not products.
I notice this euphemistic language around "financial products" too. Again, *not* products. They're not even service-as-a-product-substitute (eg SaaS). They're just services. Why call them products?
"... there exists 'BigTech', it's [US]American, it's out there, it's single-minded, it's univocal, it has the same ideas about everything, and it needs to be critiqued as this unipolar entity.
And it's not that, really. It's something a little bit more sophisticated. And moreover, you really do need to know what's inside it, in order to critique it."
#MarekPoliks, coauthor of ExoCapitalism, 2025
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