More likely, Samsung, Google-Motorola, Nokia and Amazon will set the stage and the bar for Apple to beat.
In many ways, Amazon has set the standard for customer-centric activities.
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Amazon has even set up a separate GPS store for the once-obscure class of gadgets.
It wants publishers to sell to Amazon at a set wholesale price.
All were rooted in the same theory: If Amazon lets customers set the specs, it could conquer any number of consumer products and services.
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One set of Amazon algorithms, for example, helps people compare convoluted cellular phone plans.
Cheap land near the motorways attracts businesses like Amazon, which has set up a distribution centre in Peterborough, and Network Rail, which has its headquarters in Milton Keynes.
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In addition, the bully-boy tactics of Amazon and other companies that set limits on issues like reviews, free books, and where one can or cannot sell books will also eat into their newly-won legions of fans.
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Amazon is also going to control pricing, with developers allowed to set a "list price" that Amazon will riff on, adjusting the price based on magical algorithms.
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Magazine and newspaper executives also stew that Amazon won't let them set subscription prices for their own publications.
In an increasingly competitive market for streaming video, Netflix needs House of Cards to be a hit if the service is going to set itself apart from Amazon, Crackle and the many other companies offering easy access to entertainment these days.
Hollywood director James Cameron is vehemently opposed to the building of the new 11, 200 megawatt power station, Belo Monte, set to be constructed along Amazon tributary, Xingu, later this year if all of the conditions to an environmental permit are met.
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Publishers balked at Amazon's strategy out of concern that low prices could cannibalize their print sales, set unrealistic expectations in the minds of consumers, and lead Amazon to demand e-book price concessions from publishers.
Amazon's locker service has an impressive set of capabilities, which expand the value of owning music.
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Among other things, they set Buy ratings on Google, Facebook and Amazon.com.
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Amazon has branched out into own-brand products, has set up specialist e-commerce sites in several premium markets and is dabbling in moviemaking and television production.
According to these reports Amazon, who has sold clothing for several years, is set to offer name brand clothing from such high-end brands as Michael Kors, Vivienne Westwood, Catherine Malandrino, Jack Spade, Tracy Reese, Derek Lam and Luciano Barbera.
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Under Brazilian law, eighty percent of the land in the Amazon, which covers an area larger than India, must be set aside as legal reserve.
"The mere expectation that the amendment to the Forest Law and its consequent weakening would be approved set off a disturbing wave of renewed deforestation in the Amazon region, as has been unequivocally demonstrated by data recently released by the Brazilian Space Research Institute (INPE), " they write.
So the fact that Amazon raised the bar with updates to the Kindle's software feature set is just gravy on the cake.
Amazon is developing two smartphones, an audio-only streaming device and a set-top box, said the people.
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In addition to the two smartphone models, Amazon is also said to be working on a device for streaming music and a set-top box, the latter of which was also reported by Bloomberg BusinessWeek last month.
But he has just set up his own Internet company, disabilitycity.com, a kind of Amazon.com for the physically handicapped in suburban Chicago.
Instead of focusing on the book lovers who bought the first Kindle, Amazon seems intent on creating a device that may actually appeal to a wider, less bookish set of customers.
Amazon streaming has already made its way to the living room in a number of third-party set-top boxes.
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