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Originally Posted by jocampo
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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Because people are paying twice as much for a phone as for a laptop. Because the OS is free, the hardware is inexpensive to buy and assemble, and because he owns the kind of ecosystem others dream of.
Seriously, this was a valid move and may still work out. If fact, I'm confident it will. I used the phone in a store and it is a fine phone. The only thing wrong with it is that it is not an iPhone or an Android device. Microsoft is having this problem as well. The market has a challenging barrier to entry, but what is on the other side of the wall is very lucrative. Bezos has the cash to keep running at the wall until he gets through.