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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Bezos has given shoppers seamless "One Click" buying on a phone with seemingly phenomenal recognition/identification properties (Firefly) - enabling impulse buying on an unlimited scale. He's not going to make millions selling a smartphone itself - he'll make millions selling everything on Amazon through the smartphone.
Which makes me wonder if Amazon will launch a Firefly android app for other phones/devices so that you can One Click shop at Amazon regardless of your device....
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All of which makes the huge price tag of the Fire Phone all the more puzzling. I was very much looking forward to an Amazon smart phone that would meet or beat the competitors' specs while seriously undercutting their price. What we have here seems to be a device that meets the upfront costs and planned obsolescence of the competitors coupled with Amazon's own limited app offerings. Guess I'll be sticking with my prepaid flip phone a bit longer.