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Have you never seen a feature implemented that was (a) kind of obvious, and (b) a long time coming? I can appreciate that not everyone thinks this was an obvious idea. I'd appreciate it even more if you can respect that I think it was fairly obvious. Thanks.
Thanks for your reply. My tool for eBay had an E-mail to a Friend feature before eBay did. eBay later added that feature, and these days it's prominent on top of every auction. My tool also had tabbed web browsing before Internet Explorer did, a Microsoft product. My tool also had a popup-menu where a user could scroll up and down via a mouse (to enter bids from a menu rather than having to type them in) before the i…
I should qualify that when I say the Amazon feature is "obvious", it's only from my perspective as a user. I would want a site-independent wishlist for the simple reason that I wouldn't want to manage wishlists on multiple sites. Only now, however, is it clear to me what the business incentive is for that.