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Amazon's $50 Fire tablet

5 pointsby jsnathanover 9 years ago

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ChuckMcMover 9 years ago
Seems like a winning strategy, the Fire tablet is really just a catalog with benefits. Seems like anyone who was a seller through Amazon wouldn&#x27;t mind a small &#x27;tax&#x27; to insure there were lots of eyeballs out there looking at their offering.<p>At one point Sun Micro was giving away CDROM drives because it cost them less to give you a free CDROM drive and an OS distribution on CD than it did to give to you as QIC cartridges.<p>Because of this synergy between Amazon tablets and their products, I am really surprised there isn&#x27;t a stunningly good catalog application that comes hard bundled[1] on their tablets that any of their sellers can plug into with a drop in content module.<p>[1] Hard bundling being apps which cannot be removed by the user.
lazylizardover 9 years ago
why not something like <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;wholesale-intel-sofia.html?initiative_id=SB_20150917053530&amp;site=glo&amp;groupsort=1&amp;SortType=total_tranpro_desc&amp;shipCountry=sg&amp;SearchText=intel+sofia" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aliexpress.com&#x2F;w&#x2F;wholesale-intel-sofia.html?initi...</a> ?