Wait till a 2 year old gets ahold of it and scans everything 10 times.
In this case, you scan or say what you want, then confirm the order in a GUI before it ships.
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#232Sounds like this would only real be useful for packaged, processed goods. I'd have trouble trusting the quality of perishable items over the internet...
Amazon Fresh produce is quite good in general
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#233My first thought: people are going to bring this to retail shops to get the benefits of brick-and-mortars shopping while benefiting from the low prices / delivery of Amazon. A lot of people already kind of do this. They go to a shop, find the items they like and look up on the web if they can get a cheaper price by ordering online. This version of the product might not be so practical for this use case though since i…
Exactly. Which Amazon smiles at currently and encourages through their barcode scanning app (this will require internet access for Dash, though - unless it comes with some variation of whispersync).
Or the dash could have an offline mode where it stores scanned barcodes for later lookup.
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#234HN'ers asking why this isn't a cell phone app take note - this exemplifies why we (geeks) don't make good use cases for consumer tech and we should always be careful looking to our own habits and values when in a Product Development role. We're rarely the target customer and rarely behave like "average Joe". We're naturally resistant to superfluous redundancy ("My phone can already snap a barcode, I don't need a sepa…
2010 called and wants it's smartphones-are-for-rich-geeks product formulation back. Everyone who would buy their groceries via Amazon has a smartphone. This device is as baffling as it looks. With a smartphone you have the choice of UPC code scanning, QR codes, or label/logo recognition (as in Goggles). One of the photos implies it is a laser bar code scanner. So if this gizmo is useful, it's because it would be fast…
You're forgetting the voice recognition. What if there's no barcode to scan? The Fire TV voice search is excellent -- I used it last night -- and if the Dash has similar tech then it might actually be a useful supplement to the apps.
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#235Re: Amazon Dash
#236HN'ers asking why this isn't a cell phone app take note - this exemplifies why we (geeks) don't make good use cases for consumer tech and we should always be careful looking to our own habits and values when in a Product Development role. We're rarely the target customer and rarely behave like "average Joe". We're naturally resistant to superfluous redundancy ("My phone can already snap a barcode, I don't need a sepa…
Absolutely agree! Also while this could very easily have been built as a phone app, scanning barcodes, voicing out groceries would first require the user to start up the app a first step. Its almost like Google Ware as dedicated hardware for Google Now!
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
2010 called and wants it's smartphones-are-for-rich-geeks product formulation back. Everyone who would buy their groceries via Amazon has a smartphone. This device is as baffling as it looks. With a smartphone you have the choice of UPC code scanning, QR codes, or label/logo recognition (as in Goggles). One of the photos implies it is a laser bar code scanner. So if this gizmo is useful, it's because it would be fast…
You're forgetting the voice recognition. What if there's no barcode to scan? The Fire TV voice search is excellent -- I used it last night -- and if the Dash has similar tech then it might actually be a useful supplement to the apps.
And they could stuff the same software in a phone too.
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#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
My smartphone is always within reach for me because I'm addicted to it. This thing? It's somewhere in the kitchen maybe.
Older generations use their phones for...calling people. Not refreshing Facebook every 30s. That means the phone will be in the last place where they made a phone call, which could easily be the basement. This thing? Its somewhere in the kitchen maybe; exactly where it is supposed to be used.
Why would this be useful in the kitchen if there's a day's delivery delay anyway?
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#239Has anyone else noticed that this completely rips off Hiku? Or is this repackaging the same product? http://hiku.us/what-is-hiku/
I wonder if this will be the death of Hiku? Amazon's product is definitely going to be cheaper than $79 price for Hiku with (obvious) heavy ties into the Amazon ecosystem.
I suppose they could try to pivot and cater to a different ecosystem (Google shopping express, or the like), but seems like an uphill battle.
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#240HN'ers asking why this isn't a cell phone app take note - this exemplifies why we (geeks) don't make good use cases for consumer tech and we should always be careful looking to our own habits and values when in a Product Development role. We're rarely the target customer and rarely behave like "average Joe". We're naturally resistant to superfluous redundancy ("My phone can already snap a barcode, I don't need a sepa…
you talk as if this already was a runaway success with consumers. did i miss something? cuecat bombed as well. maybe it will take off, maybe it will not. drawing any conclusions right now is bs.
Many products come before their time, then bomb. Time passes, technology catches up, society gets ready, business models evolve, and the product succeeds.