Comment by kllrnohj
8 years ago
Amazon is a bit of a weird one and it's hard to really say they "failed"
Their Fire phone failed, for sure, but they have had success with some of their Fire products. Fire TV is nearly as big as Chromecast & Roku, for example, all 3 of which dwarf Apple TV, and of course Kindle was a smashing success. The Fire tablet is also seeing some success.
But these products don't hinge on app support, crucially, they are just content delivery platforms for Prime.
By that logic Microsoft didn't fail because Office is still widely used.
Just because Amazon branded their phone under the same brand as their successful tablets and streaming sticks doesn't make the phone any less of a failure.