Exclusive-Amazon plans smartphone comeback more than a decade after Fire Phone flop

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    1. Lmao why does Amazon keep thinking they can compete on devices. Their devices are terrible, I’ve never met anyone who willingly chose a fire device

    2. Top_Category_2526 on

      Amazon is my largest position, they can cure the cancer tody that the stock price is gonna go up until i sell at loss

    3. Glock7enteen on

      People don’t buy iPhones because they need a phone

      They buy iPhones because it’s an iPhone.. you can make the best phone on the planet that is better than the iPhone in every aspect, and people will still choose the iPhone just for the brand name

      Puts on Amazon

    4. I have a feeling that it’s going to lean heavily into AI. Amazon’s biggest business in web services. They have an insane amount of data centres.

    5. Amazon is betting on local AI and smartphones that have NPU co-processors. 

      Apple and Google are already there. 

      Personal AI assistants have access to all our data. Siri is about to nag me to go to the gym because my bluetooth scale shows me gaining weight.

    6. I actually like the move.

      They’ve grown a lot as a company since their previous failure in the space and should be able to leverage Alexa and Amazon LEO connectivity.

      I know people meme about Alexa being garbage and Amazon LEO being slow to send their satellites into space, but they are both great offerings for a phone.

      With their scale I think they’ll be able to offer a decent value oriented phone.

    7. Renfield_U_asshole on

      The free phone gimmick didn’t work the first time.

      Amazon: I’ll do it again.

    8. Tis_But_A_Scratch___ on

      The amount of bloatware and ads everywhere will be insane. “Please watch this 30 second video before answering your call”.

    9. F++k, I am still waiting for the fukin stock to go up because of all the GPUs that they rent and they come up with this s..t

    10. With the cost of living crisis and price spikes in nearly all key components of consumer electronics, I believe there could be a niche in the smartphone market for Amazon if they go the ultra value route.

      We don’t live in the age of $50 smartphones like back in 2014 and even Chinese OEMs are getting pricier.

    11. I’m already trying to find an alternative to Google so i don’t see the appeal in all of this tbh

    12. AnotherScoutTrooper on

      They’re trying to break into the smartphone market again after a 4x rise in memory prices? Not even a delay? This company’s run by somebody in here I swear

    13. DontNeedaNameThanks on

      Good grief. I used to work at Amazon until they laid me off. I didn’t work on making the Fire Phone but I was… adjacent to it. 😑

    14. I bought a fire tablet a few months ago. All I use it for is internet browsing so I thought it would be fine to go with a cheap one.

      My friends, NOTHING is compatible with a Fire device. I have a password manager app – not compatible. YouTube app? Not compatible. Fucking Google Chrome, the most ubiquitous browser in the world? Believe it or not, not compatible.

      Okay so I’ll make due with their shitty Silk browser… But I’d really like to make some configuration changes. Can I do that? Well yes… But actually no.

      I will never buy another Fire device.

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