And Amazon LOST almost $800 million dollars last year. . . because they were subsidizing them and writing OFF their Firephones and taking a LOSS on their taxes. Great for them, bad for the taxpayers. That does not mean they did not cost some huge amount of money to manufacture. Your anecdotal information is not factual evidence. WHO do you think paid for those phones? You did and so did the Amazon in their write offs.
And your $35 flipping dumb phone with two year contract STILL cost you hundreds of dollars. I repeat: and your point is?
And you have yet to get anything right. I have told you Anti-Apple people that I am educated as an Economist. . . and you guys keep demonstrating you have no clue what you are talking about when it comes to either Macro or Micro Economics, or even business. . . and you tell us we only get things right by accident? Frankly, you'd need a catastrophe to get something right! LOL!
Well tell me if you are an educated economist why do you keep making the same mistake by saying you can't buy a smartphone for waaay cheaper that an iGadget or Android?
You keep morphing the issue to try and hide your mistakes.
Now its "well Amazon isn't making any money" Tell me how does that prove your position that you can't buy a brand new smartphone for far less than an iGadget? It doesn't it is just a try at morphing the issue to hide the fact you were wrong.
Lots of people are buying Fire phones and enjoying them. And they spend far less money than buying an iGadget.