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I was at amazon (in the app store) when the fire phone was released, leadership made a big deal of showing of that they were using the fire phone for the first
by ender341341 4y ago
I was at amazon (in the app store) when the fire phone was released, leadership made a big deal of showing of that they were using the fire phone for the first week or so and then got really quiet and where back on their iPhones.
- posguy 4y agoThe hardware specs were significantly behind what was standard on Androids of the time. Fire phones had only a slight price differentiation ($0.99 on a 2 year contract versus $199 for a Samsung Galaxy with a 1080p screen) and there were no commission incentives to push them, which made these a nonstarter.
- drcongo 4y ago99c vs $199 seems like a pretty big price differentiation.
- drcongo 4y agoI'm sorry, I just realised it's a typo and should be $99 vs $199. $1 did seem like a fair price for a Fire Phone in my defence.
- ender341341 4y agooh, definitely. When I was first shown it I assumed it was a test model (it was common to get test models with big ugly casing pre-launch so any photos leaked looked didn't have much to go on), but nope, the big ugly thing was what shipped...