There you go with the insulting "Sparky" names. Apple NEVER discounts their flagship phones. NEVER. Amazon released their flagship phone on June 25, 2014. . . and not more then six weeks later discounted it down 99¢ because they were not selling. I have no need to read the economics of price cutting. I've been a CEO and know WHY someone cuts prices drastically in only a few weeks after releasing a very expensive product and spending a hell of a lot of money on marketing it. IT DID NOT SELL!
You fell for the hype for a BAD PRODUCT that was intended to sell you more goodies from Amazon. That's what it was intended to do. . . and they got you to buy it. Ii find that uproariously funny! They made you buy their advertising vehicle! Not quite as good as Google did, but good.
Hahaha again you morph the issue to try and cover up how wrong you were. Remember you said to buy a smart phone is expensive. Yet I did so for far below the price of a hipster iGadget. Now you and the other sparky have continually posted FUD articles about Fire Phones yet they work and do.all the things that hipster phones do but without paying the hipster price. Like you said early I got a good deal. But hipsters are much more worried about being hip and having the hippest hipster gAdgets and the really amusing part is that these hip gAdgets will all be worth bupkiss in less than five years. Oh and your “advertising platform” comment is really amusing when one considers it was made by an Applebot. Hahaha laters sparky.