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Walmart subsidiary Jet.com now an Apple authorized reseller
Darn, they have the Series 1 Apple Watch for only $149... damn that’s tempting!
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Walmart subsidiary Jet.com now an Apple authorized reseller
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Review: Amazon Echo Show is 'good enough'
And that's fine, but Amazon isn't a non-profit organization, so criticizing them for trying to profit is ridiculous lolwilliamlondon said:
The problem I have with Amazon is that all their products are profitable to them post-sale, they're all nothing more than store-fronts so Amazon can sell you more shit through their (cheaply designed, cheaply produced, cheaply sold) products, which is why they're all so much cheaper than Apple products (up front only). I find any discussion of price comparison between business models like Amazon's and Apple's to be wholly disingenuous because they never take into account the sinister ways Amazon's business model discretely and without your full understanding reaches around you, grabs your wallet and extracts money from it over time for every product of theirs you buy. You think it's cheaper because you only think about the initial price, but that's not Amazon's business model, they profit off you over time (as does Google). As for the functionality of their devices, well, they're all geared to optimising what I've just described about their business model - the question you need ask yourself is: "is this how I want a product designed for me?" Personally, I don't.boredumb said:I still can't see relying on Amazon for hardware OR software.
They still can't make a Kindle work reliably or smoothly, or do much of anything well,
and they've been "developing" those for ten years...
Even the midrange ones cost more than their HD Fire "tablets",
so I find their other products easy to avoid.
It'd be like buying rocket engines from a company that hadn't quite yet mastered matches.
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Super Mario Run for iPhone coming Dec. 15, unlocked for $9.99
why do people keep calling this an endless runner when from the very first showing it's clear there are stages like a regular mario platformer?
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Some US airlines prohibiting use of any Samsung phones in wake of Note 7 recall
People say that about Apple because it WOULD be worse if it was them. This is the company that makes more money than almost any company on earth yet gets more doom & gloom when they have the slightest decline in sales. People complain like babies about how their phones have just tiny incremental upgrades year to year, yet pretty much every smartphone on the market isn't worth the upgrade each year. I'm not by any means saying everything Apple does is right but they do get more heat just based on how successful they've been.techguy911 said:People have been complaining that "If this was Apple it would be a shitstorm". I'd say this is quite a shitstorm for Samsung.
