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Originally Posted by jswinden
Maybe not that much. I think the Amazon customers are sold on the Amazon eco-system and buy the Fires to use with Amazon media. Besides, the price ranges are quite different.
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Apple over charges for every product they make AND over protects them from competition.
On the other hand, Amazon UNDER charges for everyone of their products and does not protect them from proper use.
This goes all the way back to 1978 when the Apple 2 was three times the price of the Radio Shack TRS 80 which continued into the 1980's when the IBM PC was half the price of the Apple equivalent.
Plus, I remember Lotus 1-2-3, a NECESSITY for business uses, was blocked on the Apple but freely usable on the IBM PC.
I remember when song files could not be used freely if purchased from Apple but could be used anywhere one wanted if purchased from Amazon.
Just recently Apple was a defendant along with 5 book publishers for price fixing. Amazon was NOT a defendant in that suit. To this day, Amazon indicates if the publisher forced a higher price on eBooks. Those without that warning usually sell for $ 9.99 or less.
In addition, the brains behind Apple, Jobs, is dead. The brains behind Amazon, Bezos, is still alive and his ingenuity benefits all his customers.
I haven't used a local brick and mortar store in years since Amazon undersells every product in those stores PLUS having a great return policy even applying to third party vendors at their site. Purchases at brick and mortar stores were almost impossible to return without sending them an attorney's letter.
Frankly, if I wanted to buy one of the new iPads, I'd buy it through Amazon rather than at the Apple site.