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What's amazon angle here? Why are they doing this?

• ctdonath 12y ago
  To make it easier to buy stuff from Amazon. Right down to the "press dedicated button, get picture of arbitrary product you're looking at, get Amazon.com product page for it". Just like Apple making a closed ecosystem that deeply persuades users to buy apps from the App Store, music & video from the iTunes Store, store data on iCloud, buy more same-ecosystem devices, etc.
  • abc_lisper 12y ago
    Hmm.. This makes sense. So they would offer suggestions on what to buy based on what your general interests are.
• igravious 12y ago
  My guess is, and I'm not trying to be funny, that they are trying to provide an alternative to Apple/Google/Microsoft. They are also trying to make shed-loads of $ € ¥. They don't strictly have their own OS the way those guys do but they plumb Android to remove everything customer facing from Google (App store, music store, book store, browser, ...). I wish them well because I think that the more competition there is the better off the consumer is. As an open-source advocate I feel that anyone building on top of Android is the open-source model working as it should.