Thread: Meltemi - Lightweight Linux based os from Nokia
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2011-10-31 , 20:17
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
Amazon has a secret weapon. How many of its competitors can also sell you a refrigerator? Not iTunes, I think. Amazon has more than 60 kinds for sale, I just checked. Fire will make it much easier to shop for refrigerators and other items.
Also, Amazon can sell their device below cost with the aim of recouping on secondary sales via their services. This is the same as MS and Sony have been doing on the games console market for years.

HP, Samsung and the others need to make a buck on the hardware sales, Google could not care either way as their primary revenue source is advertisement, MS is all about license fees, and Nokia, like HP, have picked up a bad case of shareholder meddling.
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