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by ethn 3331 days ago
"If they're not selling something to you, they're selling you" -Anonymous
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Amazon is literally an online store. A vast majority of their sales comes from selling things to you. Including the damn Echo this service runs on.
Well they are selling you the device...
Services cost money, that's why all phones don't offer free calling. The 'free' calls will eat away at the margins. I don't understand why this quote is controversial. It's quite obvious that they want the free data to at least train their machine learning algorithms, if not to also 'provide targeted ads'.