| crissindahouse said:
Jeff Bezos also referred to the Fire as a service. It's not the product for Amazon—it's the thing that makes all of the other products better and easier to use. "Hardware device as a service—that's what people want." |
I'm trying to think of all the hardware devices as a service which people wanted. The best answer I can think of is the PS2. Other than that, we have:
- HD consoles, which are popular, but haven't made any money for their parent companies.
- Printers, which are universally reviled for their poor reliability, dodgy software, and absurd ink/toner prices (that's the service part).
- Chromebooks, which seem to be an answer in search of a problem.
- Cable boxes, with their consistently sluggish and terribad interfaces and horrible downtime whenever something goes wrong.
- Cellular phones, which caused consumers to jump for joy (and fork out huge money) once software companies started interjecting themselves between the user and the service provider.
"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event." — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
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