A person who is so lazy that they need a one button ordering system for certain supplies is most likely also too lazy to care about or even keep track of when their supplies are going to run out, which defeats the purpose of this button.
Exactly.
And since you have to use your smartphone to confirm the push-button order anyway... why couldn't you have just used the Amazon app in the first place?
I mean... I get it. You put a Maxwell House coffee button next to your coffee maker so you can order more coffee when you run low.
But somehow we've managed to make shopping lists for 100 years. How barbaric!
A person who is so lazy that they need a one button ordering system for certain supplies is most likely also too lazy to care about or even keep track of when their supplies are going to run out, which defeats the purpose of this button.
I also have a problem with the shipping partners that Amazon uses. A recent order from Amazon that I made was being delivered to me by some company called Lasership. What's wrong with USPS or UPS or Fed Ex? Too expensive?
Lasership lied two days in a row, when they said they had attempted delivery. They made no such attempts, and they simply lied and put bogus info into the online tracking that I was following like a hawk. I finally got my package on the third day, when the delivery person did actually show up and not lie about it.
Amazon needs to get better delivery partners and not professional liars who post fraudulent tracking updates.
I think Amazon's razor thin margins and years and years of massive losses are finally catching up with them. If the economy goes in the tank one more time, they're toast.
I think Amazon's razor thin margins and years and years of massive losses are finally catching up with them. If the economy goes in the tank one more time, they're toast.
I'll trade almost any stock, but AMZN is one that I just stay away from. I feel that eventually, one day, it's just going to crumble. It is way, way overvalued, to the point of absurdity, in my humble opinion.
So people are going to have packages sent to them for just one thing? Or do you push the button on these things all on the same day so they all come in one shipment? I don't buy things the minute I run out of them. I typically make a list and go to the store once a week. The last thing I want is packages showing up at my door every day. Plus with this button you're buying something price unknown, or at least you have to grab your phone to see the price.
I think Amazon's razor thin margins and years and years of massive losses are finally catching up with them. If the economy goes in the tank one more time, they're toast.
My brother works for FedEx and he's worried that when Fred Smith retires (or if he dies) Jeff Bezos buy the company. Bezos hates that he has to deal with UPS and FedEx.
The only way this will be successful is if I can push the button while I'm sitting on the toilet and there's no more toilet paper, and they can deliver it to me before my legs fall asleep. Am I right?
I can see it now... fumbling around in the dark, half asleep, wanting a midnight snack... accidentally press the button for something, and wake up the next morning with an order receipt. :P
I think it's a good idea for Prime members. The shipping is free anyway. It's so easy to order just one item when it runs low. When you do your chores, you don't usually take your phone with you. If the supply is low, one press order makes sense to many people.
Once an order is placed, confirmations are sent to a customer's smartphone, where they can cancel if needed. Importantly, Dash Button only responds to an initial press that resets once a product is delivered, safeguarding against accidental mass orders.
WTF is going on at Amazon? This is the kind of thing in ID school that would have been sketched up, and made it to fourth, or maybe third to last round before it was analyzed and everyone realized, oh, actually, you know, this is sort of a bad idea.
Of those... you probably use 15-20 of those products. So would you have 15-20 little buttons scattered around your house? Seems a little excessive, right?
Or... let's say you only use Amazon Dash buttons for a few key items... maybe laundry detergent and toilet paper.
Well if you're so worried about running out of those items... couldn't you just buy a larger quantity to keep a larger supply on hand? You could buy two boxes of laundry detergent instead of one box. That's four months of laundry versus two. Surely you could remember to buy detergent again over the span of two months.
And what about EVERYTHING ELSE that won't have a little button? You'd still have to rely on "old fashioned" shopping lists for all that stuff.
Amazon's tagline for Dash is "Just press and never run out"
Or... you could be responsible adult and buy enough stuff ahead of time.
What are you suggesting? That teenagers are purposely going to press the button for repeat orders of washing detergent as orders come in? Why would they do that? If they do, cancel the orders from your phone and ground them.
WTF is going on at Amazon? This is the kind of thing in ID school that would have been sketched up, and made it to fourth, or maybe third to last round before it was analyzed and everyone realized, oh, actually, you know, this is sort of a bad idea.
Exactly.
I suppose they don't have anyone there to reign in the overexcited ID folks and get them to stop with the ridiculous "air design" projects, and get on with solving real design problems.
Hmmm, kind of sounds like Apple these days, now that Steve is gone and Jony's permitted to run amok f-ing up the iOS and OS X user interfaces . . . (can someone please stop him.)
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Exactly.
And since you have to use your smartphone to confirm the push-button order anyway... why couldn't you have just used the Amazon app in the first place?
I mean... I get it. You put a Maxwell House coffee button next to your coffee maker so you can order more coffee when you run low.
But somehow we've managed to make shopping lists for 100 years. How barbaric!
As these comments not, I'm a big fan...
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So cool!
Instead of a doorbell, I'm going to have a button that orders a crowbar.
that was funny
First time I'm at a neighbors party and i see one of these, Im pressing it!
I cringe everytime I hear or read "Internet of Things".
Goes right there with the letter codes for screen resolutions in my "don't let the engineers name things" file.
I remembered hearing this term long before Samsung swiped it without giving credit and found proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
A person who is so lazy that they need a one button ordering system for certain supplies is most likely also too lazy to care about or even keep track of when their supplies are going to run out, which defeats the purpose of this button.
I also have a problem with the shipping partners that Amazon uses. A recent order from Amazon that I made was being delivered to me by some company called Lasership. What's wrong with USPS or UPS or Fed Ex? Too expensive?
Lasership lied two days in a row, when they said they had attempted delivery. They made no such attempts, and they simply lied and put bogus info into the online tracking that I was following like a hawk. I finally got my package on the third day, when the delivery person did actually show up and not lie about it.
Amazon needs to get better delivery partners and not professional liars who post fraudulent tracking updates.
I think Amazon's razor thin margins and years and years of massive losses are finally catching up with them. If the economy goes in the tank one more time, they're toast.
Uh, where have I seen this before.
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I think Amazon's razor thin margins and years and years of massive losses are finally catching up with them. If the economy goes in the tank one more time, they're toast.
I'll trade almost any stock, but AMZN is one that I just stay away from. I feel that eventually, one day, it's just going to crumble. It is way, way overvalued, to the point of absurdity, in my humble opinion.
My brother works for FedEx and he's worried that when Fred Smith retires (or if he dies) Jeff Bezos buy the company. Bezos hates that he has to deal with UPS and FedEx.
I can see it now... fumbling around in the dark, half asleep, wanting a midnight snack... accidentally press the button for something, and wake up the next morning with an order receipt. :P
I think it's a good idea for Prime members. The shipping is free anyway. It's so easy to order just one item when it runs low. When you do your chores, you don't usually take your phone with you. If the supply is low, one press order makes sense to many people.
Actually, I DID read the article.
It's just that my kid pressed the button for making a post on AppleInsider.
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You didn't read the article or the snip I put in there to help you. I'll try again.
You didn't read the article or the snip I put in there to help you. I'll try again.
Key word: ACCIDENTAL.
http://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=11267118011
Of those... you probably use 15-20 of those products. So would you have 15-20 little buttons scattered around your house? Seems a little excessive, right?
Or... let's say you only use Amazon Dash buttons for a few key items... maybe laundry detergent and toilet paper.
Well if you're so worried about running out of those items... couldn't you just buy a larger quantity to keep a larger supply on hand? You could buy two boxes of laundry detergent instead of one box. That's four months of laundry versus two. Surely you could remember to buy detergent again over the span of two months.
And what about EVERYTHING ELSE that won't have a little button? You'd still have to rely on "old fashioned" shopping lists for all that stuff.
Amazon's tagline for Dash is "Just press and never run out"
Or... you could be responsible adult and buy enough stuff ahead of time.
Key word: ACCIDENTAL.
What are you suggesting? That teenagers are purposely going to press the button for repeat orders of washing detergent as orders come in? Why would they do that? If they do, cancel the orders from your phone and ground them.
WTF is going on at Amazon? This is the kind of thing in ID school that would have been sketched up, and made it to fourth, or maybe third to last round before it was analyzed and everyone realized, oh, actually, you know, this is sort of a bad idea.
Exactly.
I suppose they don't have anyone there to reign in the overexcited ID folks and get them to stop with the ridiculous "air design" projects, and get on with solving real design problems.
Hmmm, kind of sounds like Apple these days, now that Steve is gone and Jony's permitted to run amok f-ing up the iOS and OS X user interfaces . . . (can someone please stop him.)