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I actually like that definition. If it's causing harm to customers - prove it. Efficiency is not a crime.

Not quite. Firstly, retail is not a huge loss maker like people make it seem. Amazon has shown in the past that it can make a 6.6% margin on retail (which is fairly huge). Even rig…

Are you sure none of those 100 were gifted one?

Amazon releases the on-device source code I believe: Here's the link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... I personally haven't gone through it, but some…

Amazon doesn't want to support being a cast source because it's products are not allowed to be cast targets.

What do you think about Google not allowing iOS or Firefox to become cast sources, or FireTV to act as a cast target? Does that piss you off, or are your feelings of outrage only l…

Why not just 'Play X on kodi'

"not carrying them would mean that there's no more free market and no competition in the field. Any new (or existing) player couldn't enter the market no matter how good their prod…

I wanted Amazon to remake car rental after standing in line at a car rental place for 1.5 hours in for a Convertible I'd booked to go to Coachella, and then being told that they'd …

You need to remove Jet from Walmart and WF from Amazon. Amazon minus WF is still growing at 29%... WF minus Jet and other acquisitions was growing ecommerce at less than 20% from a…

Based on what?

Amazon already delivers to local shops as 'Amazon Lockers' in India. Turns out Americans are lazier, distances are longer, and they want deliveries at home.

Unlikely given that you can hack an Android phone to have Assistant.

No, it asks for a confirmation at the very least, and a voice code as well. Hacker news is filled with morons who know little to nothing, just like any other sufficiently large onl…

Amazon's Alexa group has published 10 papers in the last 2 years. https://www.amazon.jobs/en-gb/landing_pages/alexa-machine-le... Dunno about the rest of the company.

Turn lights/switches/home-automation stuff on/off. Read stuff from Audible. One command music streaming. (Google Now will bring up a link for you to click) Shopping. (Reorders prim…

Once the SDK is publicly available, putting your code on Github should be fine. I work for the Echo team and we want to engage hackers and open source and create a community around…