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"Yeah I'd like that porn phone please"

"Sorry, I didn't quite catch that, a torn phone?"

"No, the porn phone"

"The what phone? We have a great new Samsung Galaxy-"

"THE PORN PHONE ALREADY!!"

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Only, that's not how it would be bought. People would buy their porn phone online, just like they buy they porn, and their hookers, and their erotica from Amazon. Nobody (almost) walks into a Walmart to buy porn or hookers - they do so online, where it's all nicely anonymous.

Imagine how disruptive would be for porn, if Amazon decided to enter the business (as a producer).

You have a very curious mind.

Or Netflix.

I doubt that Amazon's classic strategy (Your margin is my opportunity) would be that disruptive to pornographic content.

This would ultimately end up in a dispute between Amazon and a major talent agency over pricing. More than 900 prominent porn stars would take out a $100,000 full-page ad in the New York Times to raise awareness of how they are being financially disadvantaged by Amazon's actions in the ongoing dispute.

There's a lot of erotica on the Kindle store

Robot sex?

Maybe, but you're still walking around with a porn phone in your pocket or next to your ear, marking you out to everyone in the know as the sort of person who is so into internet porn that they're willing to invest money in a device that makes getting internet porn even easier than it already is.

Why are you assuming it'd be recognizable? They would just take a popular device model and load it up with a different ROM.

I think I'd have to reassess my opinions of Walmart if they started to carry porn and hookers in-store.

I still wouldn't shop there though.

Walmart hookers? That's gross.

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