Collected Data

Think of Fire less as a smartphone, and more as a Trojan Horse designed to cater to impulse shoppers on the go.

Maxime St. Pierre writing for strategy;

Along with Fire’s price comes a free one-year subscription to Amazon Prime – valued at $100 – which offers second-day delivery on most products and access to Amazon’s huge library of music, movies and TV shows – all gratis.


Amazon’s Fire heats up m-comm

$200 + $60/month for 2 years. “All gratis” indeed.

"I don't think the company is evil, but I don't want to be in a chair having everything I need to me delivered to my fingertips automatically."

Stephen Hackett writing on his blog 512 Pixels.

I feel weird about it. While buying toothpaste online does nothing to help my local economy, the truth is that I'm not buying it from a mom-and-pop store. My six bucks is going to end up at Amazon or Walgreens, and both are multi-billion dollar companies.


BUY N LARGE PRIME

I would argue that buying local, even from a corporation like Walgreens, is supporting the local economy more than buying from an online retailer like Amazon. I say that as someone who makes purchases from Amazon.