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Re:Amazon Kindle Fire: More Profitable Than Expected? by steder on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:46AM (#3484641)
So when users purchase a device designed to consume amazon services they consume more amazon services...
Re:Amazon Kindle Fire: More Profitable Than Expected? by bproper on Thursday January 19, 2012 @10:40AM (#3484898)
Yeah, nothing surprising here. By this logic, since most of the revenue comes from ebooks, they should have stuck to selling normal Kindles.

I suppose app and streaming video revenue will grow over time.

Re:Amazon Kindle Fire: More Profitable Than Expected? by JoeAltmaier on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:11PM (#3485391)
Half were gifts. This is a crossover device, at least in grandma's opinion, and she chose it over other pads. Even if its worse than a 'real Kindle', the point is the Fire got a sale that probably would have been lost to a nook etc.