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Originally Posted by wizwor
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.
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All he needs is a toehold.
The recent sale might have provided it. If not, next year's model will.
It is a network effects visibility issue: people buy android phones because they see lots of people buying them. Seed the market with enough phones that people see them in other hands and sales will inch upwards.
Kinda like grassroots product placement.