> I'm sure Wickr will continue to be autonomous but maybe with access to more resources from the rest of Amazon
To be fair, this is the fairy-tale that's told on every acquisition. I'm pretty certain this same narrative was spun even when facebook acquired occulus.
Not saying this will be similar, but just hearing those words is not assuring by itself.
Amazon's proven a much better steward than Facebook, though. Twitch seems pretty independent other than some Prime perks, Eero doesn't seem to have changed much, I'm pretty sure they forgot that they even bought IMDB and DPReview, etc.
To be fair, this is the fairy-tale that's told on every acquisition. I'm pretty certain this same narrative was spun even when facebook acquired occulus.
Not saying this will be similar, but just hearing those words is not assuring by itself.