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Re:Why Amazon Has No Profits and Why It Works on Sunday September 07, 2014 @03:03PM (#8282075)
> If they can build a completely vertically integrated retail platform from procurement to payment to delivery...

Amazon has already set this up for books with their Kindle Direct Publishing platform[0]. Writers directly publish on Amazon (cutting out publishers) and their books are electronically delivered to customers' Kindles -> everything stays on Amazon.

[0] https://kdp.amazon.com/

Re:Wozniak: “Actually, the movie was largely a lie about me” on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @02:19AM (#7101289)
Well, there's a more accurate movie about Jobs being planned, for which Woz is a consultant: http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/13/briefly-aaron-sork...

Screenwriter is Aaron Sorkin - he also wrote the screenplay for The Social Network.

Re:RapGenius Growth Hack Exposed on Tuesday December 24, 2013 @02:18AM (#6958602)
The RapGenius guys just know how to treat themselves :)
Re:A Full-Featured, $38 Tablet Is Coming to the U.S. on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @08:53PM (#6925393)
There's a pretty great $129 tablet (marked down from original retail price of $149) already available in the US: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Hisense-Sero-7-Pro-7-Tablet-Quad-C...

I bought one for the grandparents. It's a clone of the V1 Nexus 7 in terms of specs, feels like a high-end tablet and has some pretty great reviews. Only problem is it's out of stock online - you can only get it at Walmart stores.