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Originally Posted by jswinden
Sounds like rubbish, especially the first article.
I keep hearing the rumor that Amazon loses money on each KF. If the article is correct in that Amazon loses $50 per KF and they have sold 16 million of them, then they have taken a $800 million loss--that's nearly a billion dollars. I find that highly unlikely. I also doubt that Amazon is losing money on the KF. It has been shown many times that a KF can be built for way less than the $200 price tag. Total rubbish.
In all the years Amazon has been turning out Kindles they have never updated a current model in less than a year after it was released. The updates have averaged closer to 1.5 years apart. So I doubt we will see an updated KF 7 inch model this soon. Why? The bugger is outselling all the other 7 inch tablets combined!
Amazon might release a larger tablet, but it won't replace the current KF.
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Amazon isn't losing $50 on every Fire it sells. I took that part of the article with a grain of salt. It's more like $10 and then Amazon is gambling they will make a profit off of Apps, Movies, Prime etc.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393947,00.asp
I don't think that we will see an updated KF 7 inch model anytime soon but there does seem to be some credibility to a late spring release of a slightly larger tablet.