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Originally Posted by soondai
Very strange run for Amazon for me. The phone. The first kindle I was not even tempted to purchase. This thing. Last month they botched some birthday presents deliveries.
I did buy the TV dongle.
Curious where it all heads.
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Try this:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_...rnid=386442011
Amazon sells a wide variety of bluetooth speakers and if you look at the prices, a lot of them are priced at $100-200. How well they sell is something Amazon would know well. So if they're getting into the business they must think there is a market for it.
Now, the rest of the gadget is basically "parts bin engineering", bringing in features from their other products: tablets, STB, streamer stick... For example, Echo comes with a voice remote control--probably the same from the FireTV box. In other words, no big investment needed to add the fancy features.
I think it makes some business sense for Amazon to sell one. I'm not buying one myself (I don't need an external speaker for my phone) but there seems to be a market for these things at $100-plus for people who rely on their phone for music so Amazon going to $99 for Prime members is probably going to draw in a few new subscribers.
Amazon has been doing a lot of hiring at Lab126 so where it heads is more... odd... gadgets. I'm expecting a thermostat at some point, along with a home security camera.