Amazon’s smartphone doesn’t have to beat Apple to succeed, it just needs to be your pocket salesman

Jun16

by Sindy Cator on June 16, 2014 at 5:47 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Mobile

The smartphone market is brutal. It destroys companies that can’t keep up and makes established tech juggernauts look like a bumbling startup. It’s harsh, unrelenting and Amazon is getting ready to shoulder its way into the fray. On Wednesday Amazon is expected to reveal its long-rumored smartphone. Judging from the teaser video Amazon released with the event’s announcement, a 3D display is all but a given. Then Jeff Bezos, the company’s CEO, shipped members of the press that are attending the event a book, Mr. Pine’s Purple House. The book is about being different with an emphasis on being purple. Even the note that accompanied the…