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Originally Posted by jocampo
True.
Reminded me my days at HP, when Leo released the HP tablet at 400 bucks. Then 300 bucks. Then silence... then 99 bucks and finally taken out of Best Buy and giving an statement saying that the iPad hype is real, lol ...
I knew from the start that this was going to be a failure. I have no idea why Amazon tried this on a market that is almost saturated of smartphones, with Android and Apple dominating the actual app ecosystem.
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My personal belief is that he has a vision of a virtual 3D store front where you can hold a virtual object in your hands and see it from all sides and then purchase it. I think the 3D phone was a start at that but the cost for all the cameras is still too high. They've been spending R&D and thought they could get some return on the investment at the high end market (and failed). Technology costs keep dropping so I expect them to take another shot at the low end of the market and try to grab market share.
I thought the phone launch was underwhelming and I'm not surprised it failed. The smartphone market isn't easy to crack. Ask Nokia or Blackberry.