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Amazon Losing $10 on Every Kindle Fire
- bzupnick 15y agoWell, this just exemplifies what everyone has been saying; that amazon's business model isn't the hardware, it's what's sold after that initial buying of the hardware. So they lose $10 per tablet, but people buy a lot more then that in merchandise.
- tokenadult 15y agoPrevious HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058207 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3058207 By the way, HN Search was an epic fail at finding this earlier thread, but it easily turned up in a site-restricted search on Google.
- xefer 15y agoRazors and blades. They'd give them away if they had guarantees people would purchase enough stuff through them.