Remember how we asked ourselves a little bit earlier how Apple, Google and Microsoft all make money? Well, we’re about to ask the same thing about Amazon and the answer is incredibly obvious: Amazon makes money by getting you to buy as much stuff through Amazon at all hours of the day for any conceivable reason. Wired notices that Amazon has added a new feature to its iOS shopping app that scans whatever product that your phone is pointing toward and will then search for it on Amazon’s vast database of goods. What makes this new feature so remarkable is that you don’t need to scan any barcode or even take a picture of what you want to buy —
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