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Re:Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story by rhino369 on Monday April 13, 2015 @11:08AM (#9368043)
Amazon seems like Microsoft but without the massive profits from cash cows (windows+office) to subsidize R&D.
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Re:Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story by scott_karana on Monday April 13, 2015 @01:18PM (#9368951)
Actually, Amazon plays that same game, to the hilt.

They're very profitable, but reinvest almost all of their money.

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...

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