• Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    As a result, Amazon has lost tens of billions of dollars on its devices business, which includes Echos and other products such as Kindles, Fire TV Sticks and video doorbells, according to internal documents and people familiar with the business.

    Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon had more than $25 billion in losses from its devices business, according to the documents. The losses for the years before and after that period couldn’t be determined.

    Not as bad as total losses for VR/metaverse at Facebook, but still a tidy sum.

    • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      25 billion in 5 years is 5 billion a year. They make around 30 billion a year. Q1/2024 turnover was 143 billion.

      I am pretty sure Jeff doesn’t really care. He likely sees it as investment anyways.