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It's great to see Amazon using its huge profits to fund this kind of bleeding edge technology. (Maybe someday engineers will figure out how to squeeze this func
by ColinCera 12y ago
It's great to see Amazon using its huge profits to fund this kind of bleeding edge technology. (Maybe someday engineers will figure out how to squeeze this functionality into handheld devices.)
- alphadevx 12y agoAmazon (in)famously has lots of revenue, but weak profits.
- balls187 12y agoNot an accountant, but I believe Amazon's "weak" profits are due to they reinvesting their profits back into the business, rather than accumulating cash.
- fra 12y agoYou mean huge losses, right?
- ColinCera 12y agoI was attempting sarcasm; I may have failed.
- EduardoBautista 12y agoYou should try the HTML5 tag \<sarcasm\>\<\/sarcasm\> next time. Some browsers also accept the "\/s" at the end of sarcasm statements. /s
- tempestn 12y agoThe sarcasm doesn't make sense to me, because that's exactly what Amazon is doing (judgements on what's "bleeding edge" aside). Amazon could easily have massive profits if they weren't reinvesting it all.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoSurely it's just "ok google" or "siri" in a tabletop device. We already have this as an app in our phones. Doesn't seem to be a technological move forward just a re-packaging of currently available ideas. The big idea here though is that Amazon can get entrenched as the first such domestic fixed device and then control the fulfilment for the shopping/wish/gift lists you make using their device. It's business innovation.