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unicornporn · 2012-02-03 15:14:13

And the money they made from it probably didn't pay their unearthly Amazon bills.

waterlesscloud | karma 16728 | avg karma 3.69 · | 2012-05-11 05:41:04+00:00

Didn't they get their money's worth out of it, though?

matwood | karma 18013 | avg karma 2.75 · | 2016-01-24 13:37:07+00:00

And they still would have lost to Amazon as they would have priced it such that no one except the government and extra large companies could pay the bill.

Tamerlin | karma 710 | avg karma 1.31 · | 2009-04-02 17:27:58+00:00

And sold it for a LOT less than they paid for it. That couldn't have helped their financial situation any.

hnburnsy | karma 4012 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2023-09-30 21:49:05

I am sure they were not getting their moneys worth.

feld | karma 2363 | avg karma 1.94 · | 2014-10-31 12:43:07

They got their money; I doubt they cared.

codexon | karma 3506 | avg karma 2.76 · | 2011-06-04 05:22:44+00:00

Maybe they didn't think anyone would pay for it.

ChuckMcM | karma 107741 | avg karma 5.96 · | 2021-10-31 12:20:21

Well clearly they couldn't afford to by meh.com :-)

Houshalter | karma 10632 | avg karma 2.14 · | 2016-09-17 16:17:12+00:00

Even if they made advertising money on it, it may not have been very much.

KnightHawk3 | karma 120 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2016-09-18 12:50:01+00:00

Because they didn't pay for it?

jandrese | karma 30121 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2019-01-16 20:29:57+00:00

I'm guessing they didn't have a lot of money at their disposal.

fabricexpert | karma 841 | avg karma 4.95 · | 2018-11-21 12:05:23+00:00

Yea but they could afford it, ethically that sucks but they still had the money to spend.

Have you ever wanted to buy something small and literally didn't have the money in your account? This is how a huge number of people live, every day, day to day. Those people will never have access to micropayment content, because they can't afford it.

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emeraldd | karma 1998 | avg karma 3.08 · | 2016-05-25 20:47:18

Or, more likely, didn't make the chunk of change they wanted ...

Eridrus | karma 5186 | avg karma 2.06 · | 2016-11-26 22:20:28

Riiiight, because these folks would certainly have spent the time to make a product that people won't pay them for.

eswangren | karma 120 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2012-06-18 20:36:39+00:00

No they didn't, they spent money to rent/watch videos.

JoeAltmaier | karma 27896 | avg karma 1.44 · | 2011-05-29 12:15:01+00:00

...but Amazon certainly paid the royalty. So it did cost them the stated amount of money.

jacquesm | karma 227883 | avg karma 3.76 · | 2023-06-22 17:08:50

Then they couldn't afford it, period.

scarface74 | karma 25313 | avg karma 1.25 · | 2021-05-08 18:57:27

If they had gotten all of the concessions they wanted, there would have been no reward.

If they could sell digital goods using their own payment system within the app like Amazon can with Amazon Video, what would they gain from this?

The PR doesn’t tell the story like what came out during court procedures.

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Uchikoma | karma 2271 | avg karma 2.57 · | 2012-08-10 00:11:25

They - and many others - didn't understand that distribution (costs) was what they were paid for and content was much less valuable than they thought.

Gravityloss | karma 6228 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2017-11-11 21:09:09+00:00

I guess they never got enough money to do a lot of things.