Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons

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Post by blumomo » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 1:23 PM UTC

Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
marketwatch.com

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Post by Scoundreller » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 1:43 PM UTC

They seemed to have little value.

Cool project though.

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Post by mttjj » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC

I think I've had 3 physical buttons since they were introduced. Only used one of them one time. It was a novel idea but never really caught on.

I'm sure Amazon would rather you just ask Alexa to order things for you now anyway.

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Post by michaelbuckbee » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

I've no real love for the intended use of the dash buttons (re-orders of items) but do hope that some other company comes up with a similarly easily hackable wireless button for interactions.

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Post by TillE » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 1:49 PM UTC

It was always baffling to make non-trivial custom hardware in an age of universal smartphone ownership.

Does Amazon even have any good apps? Seems like easy subscription management and re-ordering is something they could do there.

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Post by walrus01 » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 1:52 PM UTC

For anyone interested in weird low cost embedded devices, I suggest googling for Amazon dash button teardowns. There's some interesting choices made in their components and spec.

https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown...

https://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4460866/Teardown--Design...

There is also this thing, the Amazon wand:

https://www.edn.com/design/consumer/4460319/Teardown--Amazon...

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Post by phlowbieuq » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #4

I've no real love for the intended use of the dash buttons (re-orders of items) but do hope that some other company comes up with a similarly easily hackable wireless button for interactions.

As of now, Amazon appears to still be selling their "IOT button" (which is basically a programmable dash button)

https://aws.amazon.com/iotbutton/

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Post by tbdr » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #4

I've no real love for the intended use of the dash buttons (re-orders of items) but do hope that some other company comes up with a similarly easily hackable wireless button for interactions.

like Puck-JS https://www.puck-js.com/ ?

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Post by asd » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

Surely they will announce a Dash button recycling program. Right?

Edit: Read rest of article and have my answer. Sorry! Don’t spank me.

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Post by gmoore » Fri, Aug 02, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

asd wrote: post #9

Surely they will announce a Dash button recycling program. Right? Edit: Read rest of article and have my answer. Sorry! Don’t spank me.

it was announced in the article!