Great point! I was actually riffing a bit on Stalin and trying to make the point that Amazon doesn't need to worry about having, e.g., what HN readers would con

Great point! I was actually riffing a bit on Stalin and trying to make the point that Amazon doesn't need to worry about having, e.g., what HN readers would consider a decent Android fork; a low-quality, low-price product with the Amazon brand will sell in massive quantities just because there are a lot of people for whom price-sensitivity is key, and yet whom are still likely to be loyal Amazon customers if they have the right consumptive channels in their hands. As you point out, I was a bit flippant in my description, because obsolete specifications don't mean low-quality as such, and while AMZN can sell truckloads of low-end tablets, you're right that they couldn't sell poorly-made tablets and not have that redound poorly on their brand.