You make it sound like every non-existent product was a failure, at that many were press-release driven. But companies do try weird things just to see what sticks sometimes.
> (remember google glass? Yeah, it really is gone, it made no sense to begin with, but they won't admit it)
This is an example. Glass was clearly an experimental product to gather information. It was advertised, priced, and distributed like one. If you think it was a failure or is dead, you paid little to no attention to the life cycle.
Throw something at the wall, see what happens, refine, try again. Refining the experiment or using the information to go pursue something else isn't failure. I would assume that Amazon has a similar philosophy, at least to some extent.
> (remember google glass? Yeah, it really is gone, it made no sense to begin with, but they won't admit it)
This is an example. Glass was clearly an experimental product to gather information. It was advertised, priced, and distributed like one. If you think it was a failure or is dead, you paid little to no attention to the life cycle.
Throw something at the wall, see what happens, refine, try again. Refining the experiment or using the information to go pursue something else isn't failure. I would assume that Amazon has a similar philosophy, at least to some extent.