{"id":1067,"date":"2012-07-08T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T19:36:04","slug":"amazon-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports have it that Amazon will introduce a smart-phone later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon? Phone?<\/p>\n<p>At first, I wasn&#8217;t sure of the strategy. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it makes.<\/p>\n<p>First off, phones are where the money, profits and sales reside.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung reported record profits because of the 40-60% increase in phone sales.<\/li>\n<li>Apple makes more from it&#8217;s iPhones than Microsoft does from all their items.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go anywhere people have to wait (train station, airport, DMV, before a movie begins). What are they doing? Most people are looking at their phones. Reading something, absorbing information, punching out text messages.<\/p>\n<p>What does your smart-phone do for you?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Map<\/li>\n<li>Calendar<\/li>\n<li>Camera<\/li>\n<li>Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare,Instagram etc<\/li>\n<li>Reading<\/li>\n<li>Restaurant guide<\/li>\n<li>Movie guide<\/li>\n<li>Text messages<\/li>\n<li>Shopping<\/li>\n<li>Videos<\/li>\n<li>Games<\/li>\n<li>Clock (alarm too)<\/li>\n<li>Calculator<\/li>\n<li>Address Book<\/li>\n<li>Music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So why wouldn&#8217;t Amazon want to enter this game?<\/p>\n<p>It is expensive. It will be entering a hardware game against the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>But Amazon has more customer names and credit card numbers than anyone. Amazon has the trust of the consumer. Amazon has always been about being where the customer is&#8230; and on their smart-phones is where they reside. Amazon generally knows what they are doing and I am sure they will carve out their niche in this hyper-competitive market.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, I can also make <em>phone calls<\/em> with my phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports have it that Amazon will introduce a smart-phone later this year. Amazon? Phone? At first, I wasn&#8217;t sure of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=1067\" class=\"more-link\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14,51,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}