Sentences with phrase «hardware at a loss»

But Rotman Epps said Amazon's «willingness to sell hardware at a loss combined with the strength of its brand, content, cloud infrastructure, and commerce assets makes it the only credible iPad competitor in the market.»

Amazon's «willingness to sell hardware at a loss combined with the strength of its brand, content, cloud infrastructure, and commerce assets makes it the only credible iPad competitor in the market,» according to Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps.

«Even though Amazon taking on Apple is a bit like David taking on Goliath (compare the market cap, profits and cash position of the two companies), Amazon's willingness to sell hardware at a loss combined with the strength of its brand, content, cloud infrastructure and commerce assets makes it the only credible iPad competitor in the market, Epps wrote Aug. 29.

Amazon has a «willingness to sell hardware at a loss,» according to Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps (as quoted by the Associated Press), with the plan being to make back the money they lose on the tablet itself through purchases within their app store.

Apple is not a company who sells their hardware at a loss, as a rule.

Moreover, the time of selling hardware at a loss is long gone.

In addition, Sony drops the price of the PlayStation to $ 299, selling the hardware at a loss and making the costs up with more game sales.

Not exact matches

Although, in many cases, game companies will initially sell the consoles at a loss to increase hardware adoption.

With sales growth falling off a cliff in the past two years, they're becoming the most commoditized of hardware and the most responsible for the «bloodbath» losses mounting at Japanese manufacturers.

The relationship that has emerged has been one that keeps hardware prices at a level that either causes investors to break even, or mine at a loss.

John Stallworth has been selling hardware and fixing bikes at his shop on Chicago's South Side for 50 years, helping to anchor a neighborhood that's struggled with population loss and divestment.

«Nintendo posted operating losses for three consecutive years over FY3 / 12 - FY 3/14, but this was mainly due to hardware profitability issues,» Sugiyama stated, while adding, «We think Nintendo will not make the same mistake with its new console, the NX, which is scheduled to be unveiled by the end of 2016 and released at the end of FY3 / 17.»

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This has always been the companies MO, sell the hardware at a near loss and make it up by selling people stuff.

Amazon and Kobo use their e-book market to compensate for the loss of the hardware while «indie» - makers have not that ability and thus must take in the cost of making the readers at sale and that make it a step different to Kindle and Kobo.

Many of the top players in the game sell their hardware at a near loss to make up in selling digital content.

Amazon makes its money with content and sells hardware at near loss.

Considering the loss that Amazon is taking on each of these, basically betting that they'll be able to make a profit off them at some unspecified point in the future (after a few hardware interations, after they've driven competitors out (which is unlikely at this early in the tablet market, etc), Amazon is going to find that it's a bigger liability then an asset.

In that manner, Amazon and Barnes & Noble seem to be following in the steps of Sony's PlayStation or Microsoft's Xbox franchise: «This is the same - razor / razor blade» business model successfully employed in the video game console business, where the hardware is sold at a loss and profits are made on sales of content.»

That selling hardware for no profit is certainly much different from Apple's strategy (they make a profit on every iPhone and iPad sold) but not so different from video game companies who've traditionally sold their consoles (Xbox 360, PS3, etc.) at a loss.

The online retailer has long been tight - lipped on its pricing strategy around Kindle, with ongoing rumors that the hardware was sold with minimum profit in mind or, even, at a loss.

This recalculation, along with price drops on Wii U hardware, means that Nintendo is currently looking at an 80 billion yen drop in projected profits, from a 55 billion yen gain down to a 25 billion yen loss.

Fuze noted that they're actually selling the Play console at a loss and just breaking even on the Elite console as they plan to sell more content and services to offset the loss in hardware.

Here are the basics as noted at GI.biz: Sony's Game division posted an operating loss of $ 45 million as sales of its PlayStation hardware line continue to fall.

Eric: We all know that Nintendo is very good at being fiscally conservative when they design their hardware, and Iwata has stated that they do not plan to sell the 3DS at a loss.

Hardware distributors understand that selling at a loss usually leads to a faster growing install base.

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