Editorial: Amazon and Google are undermining mobile pricing, and that may hurt everyone:
When Google unveiled the
Nexus 4,
Nexus 10 and a
refreshed Nexus 7 in October, the moment was arguably the crescendo of a change in the Android ecosystem that had been building ever since Amazon's
Kindle Fire first braved the marketplace in 2011. Along with a widely expanded Amazon lineup that includes multiple
Kindle Fire HD models and a price-cut tweak to the original Fire, two of the largest players in the mobile world now have top-to-bottom device businesses built around selling at break-even prices and recouping their money through content. That might sound good on the surface, but it's a bad omen for competitors that genuinely can't respond in kind -- and it could erode some of the values of diversity and innovation that we're supposed to hold dear as technology fans.
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Samsung,
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LG,
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