[jessriedel]

But that's my point about scale: if the revenue-vs-developer-time tradeoff makes it worth it for any company to make a good app, it will be worth it for Amazon. They are so huge that a 0.01% increase in sales translates to many millions of dollars per year.

[spicybright]

Everything else they do also scales though. Not proportionally to each other, but I wouldn't be surprised if putting their devs on, say, better product recommendations is much more revenue than app size.

[jessriedel]

Then they should hire more devs.

[spicybright]

Again, the cost is likely not be worth it.

It would also be foolish to think we know the answers of how to make amazon more money from our comfy arm chairs.