One should never become 'numb' to buying something NEW and be satisfied that it shows up broke. One was bad enough I felt the need to replace it. I'm just not a fan of the whole Amazon way of doing thingsĬoming in late on this but 2 of my last 3 CD’s from Amazon had cracked cases. Nothing it's just I've had dozens of shipments from them damaged due to insufficient packaging CDs, Blu Rays, stuffing them in a cushy envelope don't protect such items at all. They want to try to save a few million a year on fees to Google and Amazon if they can come up with their own.

This is why you see big guys like Samsung constantly trying to come up with their own version of a voice assistant (branded as bixby in phones). You're looking at millions of dollars annually in tech revenue all based just in certifications and licensing going to two companies.

Next time you are at Best Buy or Target, take a mental note of the number of Alexa and Google enabled devices. Same goes for Polk simply because they don't move as many units as Bose, so Bose is a better data collection partner. A company like Bose could submit the exact same product as Visio, but Visio could be charged 4x because Amazon wants their logo on 'premium' consumer products, and they know Bose will advertise the **it out of it. They can easily choose to price out small manufactures because they don't want their names on products that aren't with companies that haven't been established or are not as financially stable. Yup, and they don't publish the pricing anywhere, so it can be different for each device or company based on complexity of the product or just based on anything they want really.

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