Are we certain it's the Alexa devices division which has had annual losses of up to $5 billion annually in some recent years?
I'm reading this a little bit differently:
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Internal documents viewed by The Wall Street Journal show that in some recent years Amazon’s devices unit, which includes Alexa, had an operating loss of more than $5 billion a year.
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I'm reading that to say that Amazon devices unit
in general had an operating loss of more than $5 billion a year. Wouldn't the Amazon’s devices unit include all Kindle readers, tablets, Firesticks/cubes, Echo, Ring, glasses, earbuds, etc... ?
I still don't know what the answer is, but I'm just thinking that the $5 billion loss is not being attributed directly to the Alexa unit
itself, but rather the whole of the Amazon devices unit (of which Alexa is a part).