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For Amazon's Fire Phone to succeed, it'll need to fix its app store problem first

Amazon is developing a new Fire Phone, learning from past mistakes to improve app store experience and compete in a crowded market.

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4 months ago

The tale of the Fire Phone, Amazon's very strange smartphone

David Pierce, Allison Johnson, and Sean O'Kane discuss how the success of the Kindle led to Amazon's expanded hardware plans, the brewing fight with Apple over app store policies, the ways in which Bezos himself directed the product, and the astonishing speed with which the thing flopped. Only a few months after it launched, the Fire Phone could be had for less than a buck. People still didn't want it.

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For Amazon's Fire Phone to succeed, it'll need to fix its app store problem first

The tale of the Fire Phone, Amazon's very strange smartphone

#fire-phone
#fire-phone