Amazon is subsidising Android smartphones with its apps, ads

Amazon is offering latest Moto G for $150 instead of $200 and Blu R1 HD will go for $50 instead of $100
Amazon is back in the phone business – sort of.
After its own Fire phone flopped, Amazon is selling special editions of other manufacturers’ phones at a $50 discount. They’ll come with ads on the lock screen and lots of Amazon apps on the home screen. You can hide those apps, but won’t be able to uninstall them.
Amazon.com Inc. is touting the discount as a benefit of i