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Originally Posted by stonetools
I think you should understand that Amazon also sells computer games, apps, music , tv shows, and movies. None of these work on Kindles- but they do on tablets. What better way to sell them than through your own branded hardware?
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By selling them to everyone's hardware.
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Heck, its not like this isn't a tested model. It worked brilliantly for Apple-the most valuable tech company in the world. It worked for Amazon in the category of ebooks. All Amazon would be doing is extending the same approach to other categories.
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Apple and Amazon are fundamentally different.
Apple makes money selling hardware, and runs content sales at about break even, to enhance the value of its hardware offerings.
Amazon makes money selling content, and created the Kindle to enhance the sales of its content.