“Strong holiday sales and the introduction of the new Kindle Fire will help Amazon beat conservative revenue expectations, but cost pressures given shipping deals, rising ad spend, and the unknown impact of its new tablet will squeeze margins in coming quarters. Jeff Bezos‘ company is going all-in on growth in order to consolidate its dominance,” Agustino Fontevecchia writes for Forbes. “‘Multiple third party sources have confirmed Amazon’s strength thus far in Q4,’ read the first line of Caris & Company’s research note on Amazon, released Friday. Kindle Fire sales could hit 10 million this quarter, making up 8% of revenues. For comparison’s sake, Apple sold 11.1 million iPads in Q3 (which isn’t a holiday quarter).”
MacDailyNews Take: In other words, Fontevecchia compares two dissimilar things in order to arrive at his tardclusion.
“Jeff Bezos is making an all-out bet on expansion given the company’s dominant market position. Added to the tablet push via the Kindle Fire, Amazon is reportedly working smartphone which should be ready around Christmas next year, Citi’s analysts said,” Fontevecchia writes. “Beyond challenging Apple on the tablet front, Bezos would be taking them on, along with Google, on the mobile front.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Working on a smartphone?” Whatever. Good luck with those reviews.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Be it Fontevecchia, a new college intern, or an Amazon’s PR flack, one thing’s for sure: The poor soul who wrote Forbes’ headline, “Can Bezos Become The Next Jobs?” consumed way, way too many paint chips as a child.
One of the many differences between Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs is exemplified in the collection of reviews below.
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Quick answer to the question…..: No.
Seconded. No.
Fuck No!
Hell No!
nein, Nein, NEIN !!!
In fact, there will never be a “next Steve Jobs.”
No, nay, never.
Steve Jobs:
one of a kind. Once in a universe. Many will try, but none shall ever be like him.
Thirded…no effin way
HELL NO!!!
The day that happens is the day Ballmer can do the Boy George Dance in full dress gear!
If Jeff is running, I am running! A can’t loose fight!
Yeah like Steve would put out a p.o.s. like the kindle fire.
Maybe… if it had been designed by someone else like say Motorola… He might release it … once… then he’d come back with an all Apple offering that ruled.
Ha ha ha ha! Who would seriously ask that question? Jobs paved frontiers not attempted to follow and got lost.
It’s amazing how many people just don’t get what made Steve special.
…nope
Amazon: Another company who wants to enter a business that’s outside their core competency. A recipe for disaster.
Stick to selling stuff.
The next Jobs?
No, perhaps the next White Front leader.
Only use old geezers will get that reference.
Only use old geezers that lived in the western US will get that reference.
Good point. When I was a kid growing up, Southern California WAS the world.
Everyone else can look it up on Wikipedia.
Oh, please.
Not no, but hell no. Jeff Bezos is just another vicious capitalist without any of the vision of Steve Jobs.
Steve Jobs HIMSELF was not the next Steve Jobs… or should I say the next great innovator.
The right question to ask is: Who will make us forget about Steve Jobs? Answer: Not Bezos.
1. Steve actually cared about quality
2. Steve actually cared about innovation
3. Steve would never sell something had a profit margin of $0.00 and inflicted a monetary loss for every unit sold
So, no, Jeff isn’t the new Steve. He might be the next Michael Dell, though.
Also, the Fire could hit 10 million units this quarter? Excuse me: hahahahaha. Although if it did, that would not be good news for Amazon. Because how many hundreds of millions of dollars would they lose as a result?
“He might be the next Michael Dell, though.”
Brilliant. I laughed, a lot!
Dell hit on the then magic of building computers to order.
Bezos, after much MBA type anal-ysis, chose bookselling as the business to get into because it was the most already computerized. (Those ISBN numbers, etc.)
try again! (HTML versus gimmick characters. Gimmicks lose. Ho hum).
MDN: “tardclusion” <–Like it.
Kindle Fire sales could hit 10 million this quarter, making up 8% of revenues. <–But won't because the CUSTOMER RETURN FIGURES have not been released.
“Beyond challenging Apple on the tablet front, Bezos would be taking them on, along with Google, on the mobile front.” *BZZZT*. This is fascinating:
√ The Fire is a FAIL as an iPad competitor. So much for competing with Apple. Android phones are a dime-a-dozen, or free with an eye-gouging family contract!
√ Amazon requires Google as the Dark Lord of Android. No Android = no Amazon OtherPad; = no Amazon OtherPhone.
–>Tardclusions complete.
Oh, and “Steve Jobs”? <–Non sequitur hit whore tool. The dead get no respect. 🙁
TechTardiness is rampant.
All those characters, gimmick or otherwise, hurt my eyes.
Jeff Bozos to be another Steve Jobs? Don’t make me laugh. If there is anyone that Jeff Bozos could be compared with, it’s John Sculley. Both are obsessed with market share and racing to the bottom approach.
Hell NO. Ask ACER how that business model of selling cheap piece of shit netbooks worked out for them. Bezos genius was releasing an expensive stocking stuffer so the sales come in before Christmas and the gripes come after. Fool me once… fool me twice… can’t get fooled again.
before people start calling Bezos ‘a Steve Jobs’…
amazon made 63 million net profit last quarter
apple made 6.62 BILLION
to put that in context a couple of weeks ago Apple announced compensation packages of 60 million (150k shares) to each senior VP (i.e each equal to Amazons quarterly net profit!) …
It takes real gall to posit such a laughable question or premise.
I have a better question: How does this writer sleep at night?
This headline is the biggest insult to Steve Jobs to date.
Jeff Bezos is a smart guy, but anyone who tries to compare him to Steve Jobs is just demonstrating his ignorance concerning Steve Jobs. People like Steve Jobs come along only a few times in a whole generation. This idiot is just blowing smoke up his own ass.
How can this hack really compare the fire to the iPad? It’s no where near the same kind of product.
I’ll say this, he’s the Steve Jobs of the Publishing Industry.
Forget about his dorky personality, we know he’s no Steve Jobs. But look what he’s done for Vertically Integrating the reading experience. He’s no SJ, but he’s doing Steve Jobsian things.
Look, it’s simple…..the “press” needs a SJ. Now that the real article has (sadly) left us they want to make someone else take his place. They will try this with Bozos (sorry I meant Bezos) and that kid from Facebook and to a lesser degree Larry the ” we don’t want to talk to our phones” Page.
SJ was a “click” magnet, they just want someone else to give them EASY & guaranteed clicks.
Sorry boys, it aint going to happen. Better start polishing up on those “journalism” skills you “roumoured” to have learned.
Short answer: no!
Long answer: nooooooooooooo!!!!!
Didn’t I read that Amazon was losing $50 per Fire, hoping to make it up on purchases made with the one-click buying feature built into the Fire? If they sell 10 million this quarter, that translates into a $500 million write-off for the quarter. If their last quarter profit was only $60 million, they’ll be digging deep into their capital. How long can that gambit last?
People buying iPad substitutes as gifts would seem to be only an annual opportunity. Reviews of people buying the Fire for themselves haven’t been kind.
Chuckle! .. No .. Chuckle! .. Bozo who? .. Chuckle!
Umm, no. But Jeff Bezos just might be the next Jeff Bezos: Jobs was unique; Bezos is unique; the question is, can Bezos use whatever is unique to him to change the world to the extent Jobs did (and make a boatload of money in the process)?
As Emerson said, “Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.”