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Originally Posted by Rizla
1) Losing a boat-load of money is what's wrong (see the Fire phone. Epic duh.)
2) Put the H2O in bricks and mortar stores in the US and lets see how many people want it.
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1- Define "boatload of money" for a company with $4B on hand and Billions more on tap from unused lines of credit and stock value. Unlike other companies that sit on the profits, Amazon puts theirs back to work. Sometimes it makes them top dog in ebooks or number two-ish in US tablets, sometimes they miss. You can't win if you don't play and you can't play without risk. It's called entrepreneurial capitalism. You play, you learn, you try again. Everybody loses a few; just ask Apple about Pippin, Microsoft about BOB, Sony about eVilla... All trying to move into new arenas.
Big. Frakking. Deal.
2- kobo can't get Rakuten to put the H2O on their website and they're going to get B&M stores to stock them? If their own parent company won't support them...?