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It's like saying "Windows phone is the only smartphone on market that support Live Tiles".

Actually, it's not. Apple does sell Macbooks through Amazon. No iPhones or iPads but Amazon has been selling Macs forever - http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=2423178011

I didn't see many people order Macbook from Amazon while they can do it directly from Apple Store.

Are the prices the same? When I wanted a new iPod a month ago, Amazon's prices were significantly lower than Apple Store's, even for the newly released generation of Nanos.

they are usually slightly cheaper and till very recently in California, significantly cheaper because of the no sales tax advantage they had. The final price was >10% lower just because of that but Amazon doesn't have that advantage anymore.

In the UK there is no tax difference (both Apple and Amazon have to include 20% VAT here), but still a big price difference. Here's an example, the iPod Nano 16GB latest generation is £103.99 on Amazon [1] compared to £129 direct from Apple [2], which is a saving of £25.01, which is 19%.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-iPod-nano-16GB-Generation/dp/B...

[2] http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_...

(That Amazon link doesn't include shipping but that's only an extra £3.99, so still considerably cheaper, and I'm sure when I bought mine it had free shipping... could be wrong, though.)

You may not see it but until the Samsung ARM Chromebook was released it was the top selling laptop on Amazon.

Really? Amazon order fulfillment is a lot more efficient than Apple's.

I do. It's a lot faster and in a lot of places there is no sales tax so it's a lot cheaper. The only reason not to is if you need a build to order option.

Well actually Android widgets are not too different, and in fact richer in at least some ways. Bad analogies are like bad analogies :)

And even it doesn't matter if they are making a point that is too narrow to be interesting to you as they are not making false points as it is interesting to others and that is probably why it got upvoted.

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