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		serve_yay on Aug 27, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon has sold no more than 35,000 Fire phones, d... Hmm, is that like saying Apple has XXX,000 employees because of their retail stores? (Technically true, which is actually not the best kind of true?)

72deluxe on Aug 27, 2014 [–]

Yes. They have that many employees.

I am not sure that the people running around Amazon's warehouses and doing marathon distances every day would be happy to buy the phone, however. But they do still count as employees.

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