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Originally Posted by HansTWN
You are missing the point, I think. Amazon is not interested in selling the Fires as general purpose tablets --- they make little money on them. Now if the tablets cost an extra $100, then it would be worth the effort just for hardware sales.
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Yes, that was my point. Amazon make little or no money from hardware sales - they essentially give away the devices at cost price, and rely on content sales to make their profit. It's not in their interest to give away a device and make it easy for it to be used for content purchased elsewhere.