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Also, IIRC, the Fire Phone was heavily influenced by the personal involvement of Jeff Bezos himself.
by philwelch 2y ago
Also, IIRC, the Fire Phone was heavily influenced by the personal involvement of Jeff Bezos himself.
- simfree 2y agoShipping a 1366 by potato screen phone with an outdated version of Android, and an app store that was missing most apps. AT&T could only push that pile of crap so far, they really did have their sales teams push it hard though. Very hard to convince a customer to get a Fire phone rather than a Galaxy S4, or even an S3.
- toast0 2y agoThey did court apps with AWS credits and things (at least they did for the one I was working on). I think they didn't realize (or plan for) the part where apps had dependencies on other Googley stuff. Can't just push the apk to Amazon too, if Amazon doesn't have a workalike maps api, etc. When the Fire phone was on Fire sale, it was a pretty good value for users though. The launcher was weird, but you could smuggle Google Play store on it, and it had a good processor.