> Kindle has mediocre UX compared to eg iPad, but is much much cheaper (leveraging that supply chain) Does the supply chain really have anything to do with why

> Kindle has mediocre UX compared to eg iPad, but is much much cheaper (leveraging that supply chain) Does the supply chain really have anything to do with why the Kindle is cheaper than the iPad? I grant that Amazon has a good supply chain...but Apple seems to, too. I would've thought that the Kindle is cheaper than the iPad because Amazon set out to build a product that is cheaper in every way. (I don't mean that as criticism of the Kindle.)