Or maybe he's just orchestrating a little extra PR for Amazon on 60 minutes?
Or he wants to create public demand for this service to use as leverage for getting the regulations through.
Re:Amazon Prime Air
by enraged_camel on Sunday December 01, 2013 @10:18PM
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I have no particular love for Bezos - last I heard, Amazon sucks as a workplace - but this seems unlikely. There are better ways to drive PR than reveal one of your company's secret projects to the public.
Yeah, right. The privileged information available only to the mega-rich...pfft.
Re:Amazon Prime Air
by tesseractive on Sunday December 01, 2013 @09:38PM
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Or advances in the available technology driven by a great R&D team with a significant budget instead of hobbyists?
I don't want to knock hobbyists, because they often do great work. But if Amazon thinks this is the future of package delivery, they could bring an awful lot of resources to bear on the problem.
Bezos has access to massive R&D resources because he created massive value for consumers.
Now, those resources can be leveraged to generate even more value for consumers.
Maybe he has an upper hand over the current state-of-the-art.