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Re:My Developer friends are upset about Apple vs Amazon by macspoofing on Sunday February 03, 2013 @03:40PM (#5161061)
>Where is Amazon going to suddenly start making money to justify its market cap? Suddenly increase prices and thus profit margins? Their competitors will eat them alive. Grow their business? Who isn't shopping online with Amazon already? It's just nutty. Their entire business plan is selling razor blade handles at a loss so they can sell you razors at a wafer thin margin.

Amazon has its challenges, but so does Google, Apple, Microsoft and every other corporations in existence. As for growth, there's plenty of opportunities for Amazon. They have their nascent streaming media business, digital goods (like books) to sell, grow their tablet and phone (?) business, build out AWS and cloud services and continue growing their online-retail market share domestically and internationally.

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Re:My Developer friends are upset about Apple vs Amazon by speeder on Sunday February 03, 2013 @04:06PM (#5161151)
I am from Brazil, I bought my first book at amazon in january, it is yet to arrive, and I paid 30 usd for a 14 day shipping.

What if Amazon had a local warehouse and a portuguese language site for example?

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Re:My Developer friends are upset about Apple vs Amazon by robryan on Sunday February 03, 2013 @05:56PM (#5161575)
Blame your countries customs. I can only assume they make imports inconvenient on purpose. We have avoided marketing to brazil as shipping times are extremely variable if they arrive at all.
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Re:My Developer friends are upset about Apple vs Amazon by speeder on Sunday February 03, 2013 @07:55PM (#5161897)
Well, yes...

For example here to import a car you must be a company with special permit.

You cannot drive a car across the border and keep it.

The result is that the Brazillian astra in Brazil costs 25k USD. That same car, from the same factory in Argentina is 15K and has better engine and airbags (the Brazillian version you need to pay separately to have airbags)

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