Amazon Prime Music is in no way, shape or form a comparable feature to Spotify. It's 1 million songs versus 20 million.
Such a temporary argument, especially when you consider Amazon has "increasing selection" as a core tenet[1] of how they grow any business they've created over the last 20 years.
[1]: http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-careers/jfsfis...
Re:Amazon Fire Phone
by MilnerRoute on Thursday June 19, 2014 @12:50AM
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And 400 of Amazon's 1 million songs are by Johnny Cash.
http://www.beyond-black-friday.com/2014/06/12/amazon-announc...
Imagine the point in time where anyone with a fire phone firefly's EVERYTHING they buy, before they buy it. Cheaper from Amazon, and free "2" day shipping? Killer feature. Never pay more again.
Fairly powerful for price conscious customers. Add in Spotify at $10 a month, Netflix at $10 a month ($240 a year, over $500 over the life of a 2 year contract), and you are getting the entire phone for FREE if you already have Prime.
At total value, if you wanted to have a "similar" phone with similar streaming services and content providing, you'd be paying more than if you bought this $200 phone, with a data plan you most likely will already have.
Looking at it that way, Amazon is paying you to use their phone. Understanding how the Prime model works, this makes a shit load of sense.