Comment on Amazon owning app distribution is irrelevantparentComments−r00fus14y> What's more, the low margins on the kindle fire s/low/negative/They are betting their entire tablet strategy on by losing money on each hardware sale.Can someone tell me why this isn't considered dumping [1]?[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)−avichalOP14yIt's not dumping because it's not Amazon doing predatory pricing across geographies. It's subsidization. They're subsidizing the cost of the hardware to drive sales on Amazon.com
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> What's more, the low margins on the kindle fire s/low/negative/
They are betting their entire tablet strategy on by losing money on each hardware sale.
Can someone tell me why this isn't considered dumping [1]?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
It's not dumping because it's not Amazon doing predatory pricing across geographies. It's subsidization. They're subsidizing the cost of the hardware to drive sales on Amazon.com