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Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by personlurking »

tinkerdol wrote: post #28

Next they'll partner with OkCupid and we can just push a button when we want the next date to show up.

Or maybe it'll go past button-pushing...

Knock, knock. "Hi, I'm Alexa, and my OkCupid profile is a 94% match to yours. Because of that, OkC unlocked your pre-selected social profiles for my perusal. Google Now alerted me to the opening in your schedule right now, Uber took me to your house, and plus I saw you like that Thai food joint down the street based on your FourSquare, so I brought some. Oh, and I thought we might as well watch a comedy flick you've been wanting to see according to your Netflix."

I'm sure someone (more creative than me) could write a better one

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by dntrkv »

MCRed wrote: post #46

Remember what I was saying yesterday about Amazon throwing things against the wall? Can you see how this idea is ill considered? IT doesn't make much sense. I predict in 5 years nobody will remember this and it will be gone from Amazon's site. But for this press cycle it's PR that makes Amazon look "innovative" and like a "tech company". Just like the Amazon fire phone did... for a little while. How much was wasted o…

You could say the same thing about Google. They launch so many products and if they don't work out they just disappear. Isn't that what an innovative company does? Try crazy things and see what works.

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by epochwolf »

smacktoward wrote: post #95
bbx wrote: post #39

It's a intermediate step towards absolute frictionless purchasing. We went from physical in-store cash payments to online 1-click delivery. The purchasing experience has continuously been quickened, to close the gap between the intent and the action. Nowadays, running out of coffee capsules (for example) still requires some interaction, via your phone or your laptop. There's at least a dozen of seconds between the in…

(Fast forward to 2025) "Wait, you expect me to actually PUSH A BUTTON?"

Hey Siri, order more tide.

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by tylermac1 »

CheckHook wrote: post #17
tylermac1 wrote: post #5

Interesting idea. Seems like having one button per item would be overkill. Maybe have one generic button that opens an app on your phone to choose an item from your 'frequently purchased' items.

That would actually be the same amount of steps as the current situation. I often leave re-stocking items till later and ultimately end up forgetting.

True, I guess I imagined it more as building a shopping list throughout the day/week and ordering once at the end of the day, not separate orders for every button click.

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by mynameisvlad »

untog wrote: post #82
tonyhb wrote: post #15

It's not just a physical button — it's an API. If you develop a hardware product you can apparently integrate with Dash to order supplies from the embedded controller. Information is here: https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-replenishment-service Apparently, Whirlpool washing machines and Brita water filters will be using it. This doesn't help for basics like paper towels, but it would work for paper towel holders (if it'…

Great, so now when I buy a Whirlpool washing machine it'll be hardcoded to use products with its reorder button. Gross, gross, gross.

Or you could, oh, I don't know, do what you've always done and go buy products yourself? Or buy a separate button for your product of choice? You don't have to use the built in system.

And there is absolutely no indication it's hardcoded to use a specific product.

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by chiph »

zotovas wrote: post #47

I just can image kids clicking on it over and over again...

"Hello, customer service? I am not paying for 14 cases of Kitty Tuna-n-Bits. My cat was toying with the Dash button on his Amazon food bowl."

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by 27182818284 »

gokhan wrote: post #87
jader201 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The timing is terrible. Even if it's not a joke, they've just set themselves up for this exact comment. Surely someone would have thought of this? Just seems like a really bad choice -- too bad for a company like Amazon to make (the timing, that is, coupled with a highly-branded product like this).

You don't remember Google's April 1st announcement of Gmail, then. With gigabytes of storage, it was the perfect joke for the day and naturally carried by news outlets everywhere. And the joke continued on the next day, people realized that it wasn't actually a joke and, naturally, another media frenzy happened. Perfect example of guerrilla marketing IMO.

I completely remember that, which is why companies like Amazon should especially know better.

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by afandian »

ovi256 wrote: post #42
afandian wrote: post #26

The video reads like some kind of dystopian consumer hell. Everything comes in a packet from a trusted brand who is taking care of you. Consume! Consume! Consume! See you useless you are when you can't consume! Your whole day is ruined. Good job we've got your back. We'll send you some more of those precious packets.

>Everything comes in a packet from a trusted brand who is taking are of you. And how is this different from the present ? Everything comes non-packets ? From an untrusted brand ? That dystopian future sounds better somehow.

Depends on your present. I like to make a choice before buying things. Especially coffee.

Re: Amazon Dash Button

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Post by toomuchtodo »

elevensies wrote: post #93
bbx wrote: post #39

It's a intermediate step towards absolute frictionless purchasing. We went from physical in-store cash payments to online 1-click delivery. The purchasing experience has continuously been quickened, to close the gap between the intent and the action. Nowadays, running out of coffee capsules (for example) still requires some interaction, via your phone or your laptop. There's at least a dozen of seconds between the in…

If you think about what a butler would do, that's the logical endpoint, it could mostly be done in software I think. Given a budget and a set of goals (keep certain things stocked, fresh, replace when used) it would try to satisfy them. It might warn you if it can't, and you could adjust criteria if you don't like the results. Given the API that appears to be behind the buttons I think we're already at the point wher…

> Given the API that appears to be behind the buttons I think we're already at the point where you could create a device so you could just yell in frustration "GODDAMMIT I NEED MORE TIDE™" and then it shows up an hour later (in select cities).

http://www.amazon.com/oc/echo/

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