<story><title>Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/amazon-fire-phone-sales-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>georgemcbay</author><text>As a huge fan of Amazon in general (as a customer), I still find it difficult to believe they released a hobbled Android phone that is AT&amp;amp;T exclusive and starts at $650 into a world where the $350 fully unlocked Nexus 5 already existed for almost 8 months prior to their release.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m just really seriously confused by what they were thinking here.&lt;p&gt;It is almost like seeing one of those &amp;quot;fail&amp;quot; videos where a kid piledrives his friend off the roof into the backyard and both kids end up badly injured -- of course that was the end result, there was no reasonably plausible path from the starting point to any sort of non-failure ending.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, data suggests</title><url>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/amazon-fire-phone-sales-data</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>I bought a Fire tablet and I swore &amp;quot;never again&amp;quot; after that experience.  I sold it on Craig&amp;#x27;s list and bought a Nexus 7.  Couldn&amp;#x27;t be happier.&lt;p&gt;The fact that Amazon has a separate store really ticked me off.  Lots of apps I was used to on my phone couldn&amp;#x27;t be used on the Fire.  And, the fact that the Fire was based on Android 2.x and really never got better, well, that was really annoying, too.&lt;p&gt;So, when their phone was announced, even before I knew one thing about it, I was completely uninterested.</text></comment>