It was speculated that Amazon would release their smartphone last week when they announced its new Kindle Fire but it never happened. And now it doesn’t sound like Amazon is going to be rolling out a smartphone for the rest of this year, according to All Things D’s Tricia Duryee. She asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos about the company’s future product plans and the conversation went as follows:
“Q: What about extending the [product] roadmap beyond these devices that we saw today?
Bezos: I can’t talk about our future roadmap, but we have some ideas about what we can do in the future. … You are exhausting me now, come on, Tricia! We just finished this one! You are such a demanding customer! What else do you got?!
But you do have demanding customers!
Bezos: We will certainly — not any time soon — but next year. We have some more things that we hope people will enjoy. It’s premature for me to talk about them.”
As Business Insider said: There you have it — Amazon’s not going to be launching a smartphone this year. BI added that it’s good news for Apple since an Amazon smartphone, priced and built well, could be a big threat to the iPhone profit machine.
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