JoePiervincenti

williamlondon said:

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.

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.