Computerworld - Amazon' first smartphone, the Amazon Fire, has been nothing but controversial.
Panned initially by reviewers before its release a week ago, one expert said on Monday that Amazon's basic intent with the Fire is to field an initial device to mainly gather corporate insights on ways to sell more Amazon products online.
The Fire Phone is widely regarded as one of Amazon’s biggest misfires — and rightfully so. After debuting in the top spot of the company’s retail..
In January 2015, Amazon Fire phone earned our top spot for the being the biggest tech flop of 2014.
As terrible as it was... you are making such claims because they have ran out of stock? Lol
Just another example of people making up their own news stories.
So now you're claiming Amazon never sold a single Fire Phone? Nice try... Keep moving those goalposts.
Everyone knows the Fire phone was a flop. If Amazon should suddenly go out of stock of it's product that has been collecting dust in store shelves, it does raises an eye brown..
They ran out of stock because they have been practically giving them away over the last few months.
techSpot: Amazon has laid off “dozens of engineers” from its Lab126 hardware unit as a result of the Amazon Fire Phone’s failure, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal.
I completely forget about this (go figure). It seems everyone and their mother wants to be in the phone market. Anecdotally everyone I know either has a Samsung or Iphone, 99 percent of the news you'll see on this site is covering these brands with the occasional Chinese phone manufactures (Huawei, Xiaomi) or the old hey remember Blackberry piece.
I think the hardest thing facing newcomers to this market is breaking into the lexicon, pseudo brand recognition but not really. For instance few people in the general public realize that Sony makes one hell of a smart phone with their Xperia. But you'll sooner find a unicorn walking down the street than seeing an Xperia in the hands of a friend or even a complete stranger.
Think in terms of MP3 players, at their height Ipod somehow become synonymous with all MP3 players just like in the early 90's you weren't playing video games you were playing Nintendo.
Point being even if your phone is a great piece of tech, sometimes society as a whole could care less because it isnt something they know or even care to learn about.
I expecting much more from their Next Phone, this one is good but sadly not for me.