10-31-2024, 02:44 PM | #4981 |
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Apparently Amazon has an "idea team" but doesn't always run these ideas through a thorough marketing analysis nor produce market test prototypes. Smart companies will test the ideas out on potential customers before spending a ton of money and development. Apple has such a dedicated customer/fan base that they can often get away without doing that, but Amazon isn't Apple.
I'm reminded of the annual car shows in which the major car manufacturers show off prototypes and concept vehicles. They can gauge consumer reaction without having to engineer the entire vehicle. Most of those concepts never go beyond the mockups used at the auto shows. Amazon could probably benefit from building mockups and showing them to select consumer groups to gauge consumer response before committing to developing an untested idea. |
11-01-2024, 03:20 PM | #4982 |
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Hey Amazon, what happened? Where's Alexa AI?
Alexa’s New AI Brain Is Stuck in the Lab Amazon is struggling to bring AI to Alexa Alexa, what happened to your big AI upgrade? Can Amazon Alexa's Claude AI Integration Really Be That Remarkable? Amazon Alexa is about to turn 10, but its next-gen AI upgrade may have been delayed until 2025 |
11-21-2024, 02:02 AM | #4983 | |
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Amazon introduces Echo Show 21
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11-21-2024, 06:38 AM | #4984 |
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Well is it just me or is Amazon scamming customers who want to trade in old devices? I turned in a 2016 fire tv stick, got the $3 and the 20% off notice. Was not applied to the Echo Spot that I just ordered. In the fine print it said the discount would be credited to me after the purchase. I've NEVER seen that before. Where is my $9.00? I am aggravated and will never trade in another device if this has changed. Used to be, you would get the 20% immediately!
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11-21-2024, 08:05 AM | #4985 | |
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Wow. I was curious so I took a look at the T&Cs.
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11-22-2024, 06:23 AM | #4986 |
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I will be contacting CS about this when I have time. But as of right now, I will never do another "trade in for discount" again! Luckily the device I sent in hadn't been used in years and had no real value, to me.
So this afternoon I got a text and an email. Apparently the "discount "has turned into a "refund to the payment method." It's an annoying change, but at least I got my money back. Last edited by booklover6; 11-22-2024 at 05:00 PM. |
12-02-2024, 07:27 PM | #4987 |
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Does any one know how the Echo Pop compares to the Dot in terms of performance? Beyond what it says on the site. has anyone tried it? Does the mic seem to perform better than gen 2 and 3 Dot, for example? With the Cyber Monday sale, I' thinking of replacing some of our older devices with the smaller cheaper Pops.
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12-03-2024, 02:51 PM | #4988 |
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@Alexa: How many Kindle books do I own? When was the last time I bought a paper book from Amazon? So why do you recommend that I purchase paper books on a nearly daily basis?
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