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Comment No great loss (Score 1) 41

From my experience the Fire Store was rife with fraudulent and unvetted apps. There was little evidence Amazon was doing any quality control or checking that downloaded apps actually matched their description.

While apps stores do typically take a 30% cut, this in part goes to running the store and keeping apps honest. And it is still less than a brick and mortar store would ask for.

Comment Re:Context for the headline FTA (Score 1) 49

This feels symptomatic of many US businesses. They'd rather lobby the government than embrace necessary change. This leads the country as a whole to place where businesses are protected by the government, but are incapable of competing effectively beyond internationally. There are exceptions, but shareholders have been making businesses chase the wrong priorities.

Comment Cancelling Prime (Score 1) 189

I've seen over on Reddit some people indicating they are cancelling their Prime membership, since they believe they won't be getting Amazon Prime delivery promises respected with this change. They believe that overnight will go away. I have no idea what the reality will be, but unless Amazon looks to respond to those concerns, they may lose more Amazon Prime customers.

Comment Re:The whole industry has done what? (Score 1) 117

A great deal of Apple's stuff was through acquisitions, too. Notably, the iPod and their ARM design team.

Indeed, though they did innovate enough that they have added value. Apple was an early player in ARM (when it was still called Acorn Risk Machines) and it was PA Semi the company Apple acquired to develop their chips.

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