Amazon Fire Phone FAILURE: $170 Million DISASTER!
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- Amazon Fire Phone Failure: $170 Million Disaster - Tech Fails!
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What happened to Amazon Fire Phone? We are going through everything you need to know about the Amazon Fire phone and why it was a big fail. On getting the news that the most trusted eCommerce brand in the world would be releasing its own smartphone, there was a lot of excitement. However, Amazon's Fire Phone was nowhere close to its expectation for both users and the company.
To fully understand why Amazon created the Fire phone, we must go back to the beginning.
Amazon started out selling books, CDs, and DVDs. As they were entering the digital age, Jeff was quick to adapt, and so the Amazon Kindle was birthed. The Amazon Kindle was the first piece of hardware that came out of Amazon. Although it was a big hit, Jeff Bezos was looking to go farther than the simple Kindle device. Amazon had branched out into other forms of media that the Kindle didn't support, and needed a new device to tie the new broader ecosystem together. Enter the Fire Phone (and the Amazon Fire Phone 3D screen!)
This is the story of why Amazon Fire Phone failed.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro to Amazon Fire Phone
1:16 Why a Smartphone from Amazon?
2:11 HP+ Smart Printing
3:37 Amazon Fire Phone Specs
4:31 Amazon FireOS: Android Lite?
5:09 Amazon Ecosystem
5:49 Amazon Fire Phone Features & Gimmicks
6:37 Why Fire Phone Failed
7:05 Home Screen Ads
8:28 Amazon Fire Phone Price: Too Expensive
10:10 Gimmicky Features: Dynamic Perspective
11:07 Cost of the Fire Phone Failure
11:58 Amazon Goes All In on Voice with Alexa
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I know that I'm gonna sound like a hater but I never felt compelled to buy into Amazon's ecosystem and software...It just felt cheap and cumbersome to me, the Firestick was kind of my indication of what the phone would be like
Oh I wholeheartedly agree. Amazon devices for the most part follow that same philosophy of being cheap and basic. If that's all you need, great! Super casual users and kids basically.
I still have this trash in drawer😅
I remember another big issue was that this was exclusive to AT&T at the time. Of course, you could buy unlocked, but that was still a foreign concept to consumers around that time. So they might have sold a bit more if they had been on every carrier at launch.
The big issue was Amazon was basically trying to shove the ideas of a tablet inside a smartphone and upcharge for it. If they have focused this on being a tablet around the size of the Nexus 7 and keep the price below $350. They could have started something.
Great recap vid! I'd like to see your take on the Mozilla firefox phone too.
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Great video! Thank you for sharing!
Thank YOU for watching!
Loved the video, great work. I’ve maybe misunderstood your last point about voice, but wasn’t Siri first? Not Alexa?
Thank you! Siri def came first, but when Alexa was introduced it was way more functional. Amazon went all in on voice while Apple saw voice as a feature of the phone. For Amazon voice was the replacement to the phone.
@@Andru I see, gotcha. Thanks for answering. I knew that I’d likely misunderstood. Great video, really enjoyed it 😊👏
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What’s good brotha. Congrats on all the success you and your company has had. Miss you dude.
Thank you sir!!! Hope you are doing well!!
If developers work on it more it would be a great phone. I loved it, specially the camera. It was amazing. The operation system was really bad and some apps like for example whatsapp got late updates. Sometimes it was just not useable. Hope it will come out a better one.
So bloatware killed the phone...hope u learn ur lesson Amazon.
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I’m High and watching this video make me normal hahhaha WTF, you’re great bro, many information I didn’t know before, big up and hope you the best, still don’t know why I’m drinking and watching this video but really making excited to finish
A waste of money.
Well detailed 👏
Thanks! 🙂
Great video edwards
Thanks for watching!
Trying to watch it for the second time.. But this time SUCCESSSSS!
Thanks for coming back! No clue what TH-cam did to the initial upload!!!
@@Andru 👍
@@Andru 360p was okay for me ;-D
I would add that exclusivity to ATT when it launched as an issue too. Only Apple could afford to get away with carrier exclusivity. Great video Andru!
This is also true! But even take that into account, and other companies that went the exclusivity route (even ones that failed like the Palm Pre, and that was exclusive to SPRINT!!!!!!) greatly outsold the Fire Phone - and Amazon had way more consumer attention on its side. But definitely, exclusivity certainly didn’t help them! 🙌🏽
the main reason it failed is because they stopped trying, and there was no sequel device. Without that, no developers, etc... why the tablets worked.
It failed out of the gate, there was an unreleased sequel but it was shelved because the first one sold so incredibly poorly.
@@Andru you don't think those developers etc would if come if Amazon showed that they were in it for the long haul.
@@RandomUserName92840 I think that’s the tough part. Same place Microsoft failed, but Amazon used Android apps so they had way less of a challenge there
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