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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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.
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Judging by the recent drop in Amazon share value, it seems investors disagree.
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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...?
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Irrelevant. This says nothing about what consumers would buy, given the chance. It's obvious that many users would be drawn to a 6.8" screen, if it was available in stores. Add to that that it can be made cheaper than Amazon's smaller 6" Voyage, and it would clearly outsell the over-priced Voyage.