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Re:Amazon Fire Phone by glesica on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @09:37PM (#7913959)
I wonder how this relates to IBM of old which had a business model that amounted to "Sell at high price, high tie-in revenue." It didn't work out so well for them (at least for their PC business), turned out that people didn't really want to be "tied"-in.
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Re:Amazon Fire Phone by r00fus on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:16AM (#7914716)
Given the PC business was already commoditizing (because of IBM's insane reliance on Microsoft without the proper contract to prevent what happened), the high price sale couldn't compete as well against lower priced products.

Plus most of their sales were B2B where brand loyalty means little for commodity products, esp. given the high tie-in strategy.

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