Confirmed: Amazon does not make the production and sales of Kindle Fire

It has already been repeatedly appeared information that the company Amazon sells the device under its own brand is not getting from this profit. To confirm this fact needed to conduct basic component cost comparison with the market price unit. According to various data, sales were either zero or completely at a loss. However, no representative of the company will not officially confirmed, although denials also should not have. When yblo released the second generation of tablet Kindle Fire HD with prices $ 199 for the Model 7 - inch screen and $ 299 for the version with a screen 8.9 inch, it became clear that the move away from the concept that the benefits bring sales of content, not "iron" in the Amazon do not intend to. now head of Amazon, Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) the BBC has confirmed this information in person, saying that "in fact, we are selling the unit at cost, so that the devices will be sold even at a loss. We're not trying to make money on the devices. " Obviously, Amazon operates the same scheme as Google, providing its OS for free. The difference is that Amazon is not engaged in the promotion of advertising, and makes his involvement in the buyer's own ecosystem in which it will spend money on other company offers. And this business is quite successful, Eric Schmidt of Google has said that Amazon is a big four, along with Google, Apple and Facebook.