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Shopify Shop, Shopify’s Reason to Exist, Google’s Earnings
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- Shop resembles Google Shopping more than Amazon, and it lacks the convenience of a single cart. It’s a product that reflects the philosophical tug-of-war between Shopify’s original antimarketplace stance and its stated ideal of helping merchants be as successful as possible.
from Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon? (Published 2020) by Yiren Lu
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- [The Shopify app Store is] just not a great place to do distribution anymore. If you go on today, you’ll see Facebook and Google at the top, which doesn’t make sense if you want to improve app discoverability.
from Sara Du, co-founder and CEO of Alloy, on building the Switzerland of ecommerce software by Jan-Erik Asplund
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