The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo

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Post by nickles » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:08 PM UTC

The Real Story of How Amazon Built the Echo
bloomberg.com

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Post by zoidb » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:29 PM UTC

I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..

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Post by igvadaimon » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:34 PM UTC

zoidb wrote: post #2

I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..

I found them wonderful.

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Post by glaberficken » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:40 PM UTC

zoidb wrote: post #2

I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..

We seem to have come full circle since

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Post by paulcole » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:49 PM UTC

"An e-commerce company wouldn’t seem like an obvious leader in [augmented reality]."

Amazing that even today articles are still calling Amazon an e-commerce company. I wonder if this is an image Amazon actively cultivates or if it's just consistently lazy reporting?

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Post by daveguy » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:51 PM UTC

zoidb wrote: post #2

I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..

Holy crap that is annoying. Is there a way to pause all animated gifs in chrome? Congratulations, Bloomberg, you captured the essence of a Geocities site. This has to be a not so subtle graphic design joke.

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Post by jamespo » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:53 PM UTC

Maybe it's time to release it in other territories now

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Post by JabavuAdams » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:54 PM UTC

> "Generally, the engineers and product managers at Lab126 quelled their own dissent before it reached Bezos, instead concentrating on giving the boss what they thought he wanted. “We spent so much time trying to anticipate what Jeff would do or say, and read into little words he would say in meetings,” said one former employee. “It would lead to so much additional work.”

This sounds like a recipe for disaster. Very worrying. How have they managed to be so successful with such broken communications?

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Post by Mwatson10 » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:56 PM UTC

zoidb wrote: post #2

I wonder what conversation at bloomberg resulted in adding all of those extremely distracting (and annoying) animated gifs..

I agree with you, however I did enjoy opening up the developer console in Firefox and deleting all of the obnoxious background.

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Post by scott_s » Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 1:56 PM UTC

paulcole wrote: post #5

"An e-commerce company wouldn’t seem like an obvious leader in [augmented reality]." Amazing that even today articles are still calling Amazon an e-commerce company. I wonder if this is an image Amazon actively cultivates or if it's just consistently lazy reporting?

It's possible the author of the article knows that Amazon is now a tech company as well, but is assuming that their audience does not yet realize this. My impression is that people who don't work in tech don't know this; I have explained many times to people outside of our world how Amazon is one of the most important tech companies in the world, and that discussion always starts with a puzzled look from them.