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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by mercurial on Thursday November 13, 2014 @09:40AM (#8601687)
> The division head asked something like "are we doing the right thing here?", and also said something like "we need to make money".

That's not the message I get from "At the end of the day, you should do what you need to do to maximize free cash flow for the device." The priorities are clear.

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Re:Letter to Amazon Board from Fired Ad Exec by derf_ on Thursday November 13, 2014 @12:52PM (#8602876)
And the sane, ethical response to that is, "I'm told Amazon takes the long view, and the long view here is that we will maximize FCF by not betraying partners and not doing anything we wouldn't want to appear on the front page of Hacker News."

Because, you know, that could happen... 'some day'.

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