We don't have Amazon here in Malaysia (not counting AWS, Kindle, Prime Video). But I think life hasn't become any better or worse with the alternatives. There's the big 3 e-commerce companies (Lazada, Shopee, TikTok). But even if we didn't have AWS, there's still Azure, Alicloud and so on, same with other products.
I'm curious what kind of conveniences Bezos did that wouldn't be around without him.
I don't think there would have been a societal push for same-day delivery, and I don't think there would have been an ambitious push to own the entire delivery logistics operation. Not only did they aim for a crazy feature, but they knocked it out of the park by going overboard and owning the trucks.
Our society would not have this if someone didn't push for it IMHO, or we would have had it much later.
Think of it like Covid and remote work. It wasn't going to be happen for real without something extraordinary.
I'm curious what kind of conveniences Bezos did that wouldn't be around without him.