Apple and Amazon Have a Problem: People Don’t Want to Buy Stuff Anymore

The failure of the Fire Phone has been widely cited as the reason for Amazon’s disastrous quarter, but a darker cloud has settled over the world’s biggest online retailer. The core of Amazon’s business—its original reason for being: selling books and other media—has grown wobbly. The problem: many people no longer want to buy stuff. […] The post Apple and Amazon Have a Problem: People Don’t Want to Buy Stuff Anymore appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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