Not real surprising that people fall back on the standard rhetorical device of trying to mock when the facts aren't in their favor.
It was hardly baiting. It's a major story and could have some major ramifications. My second to last sentence was simply my prediction that certain posters would go into full spin mode in defense of Amazon. That, of course, was the closest thing to a sure bet that one can find.
The WSJ's more lengthy article
http://online.wsj.com/articles/amazo...oss-1414095239
goes into some of the positives and negatives on Amazon's financials.
From the article -
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“Clearly, they’ve been spending money everywhere,” said Michael Pachter, a Wedbush Securities analyst. “They’ve been releasing these new products—the phone, the set-top box, streaming originals—but it’s not clear how that leads to sales.”
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It could simply be that Amazon's business model is a very costly business model that requires more and more money to maintain the infrastructure. Or it could be that Amazon just has made a few bad bets on products they are putting out (i.e. the Amazon phone) and companies they are purchasing. Of course, both Apple and Google also put a lot on money back into the business, that's the nature of the beast.