Best idea ever, wow what a great product and functionality! This should be in every house! :-)
Amazon acts like a startup still. Good for them!
Amazon Dash
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Re: Amazon Dash
#42This is a cool service to integrate with AmazonFresh. A similar promising alternative is https://www.rosieapp.com ... It's a pretty cool startup with similar goals.
Re: Amazon Dash
#43HN'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…
Opening an app is, thankfully, something the tech industry has managed to train the average consumer to do.
I'd argue though remembering where you put this thing, or "oh hey the wifi password got changed why isn't the food scanner working?" adds lots more complexity than hitting an app icon. The app route also enables you to have multiple scanners - since the target audience of such a product is probably already heavy on tech, and most probably have multiple cell phones.
I guess that last line might be the issue. It isn't really a cell phone, it is a capacitive touch computer with a microphone and speaker, but that is something we haven't yet conveyed well.
Re: Amazon Dash
#44Anyone know the battery life/lifetime of these? If it's months, that's a lot more convenient to keep in the pantry. As a kitchen appliance it makes a lot of sense, but I don't have any muscle memory for "charging" appliances.
Re: Amazon Dash
#45HN'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…
Actually I think it is simpler than that, there was a time when the programmability of the phone was so much better than you could do in a cost effective embedded system that it was the right choice. Now you can put a 32 bit ARM Cortex M on a device for $3 and so spending on the plastic is more feasible.
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#46I wonder if this will lead to showrooming of groceries, like Amazon's done with books. The only thing preventing this is the wifi requirement, but of course one can already do this with their phone. Though it does make it even easier.
Opportunity and wait cost is annoying high if you're trying to save a few bucks by going to the supermarket, scanning all the items there, and ordering from Amazon. If anything I'd imagine rolling into recommended food subscriptions.
If you don't have the products on hand you won't be trying to QR scan stuff. You would just order it from amazon.com.
Re: Amazon Dash
#47I see absolutely no reason why this couldn't have been a mobile app with a bar code scanner and voice recognition...
Have you ever tried to scan a barcode using a phone's camera? The process is pretty terrible, it takes forever to focus, and you better hope you have perfect light.
Compared to a dedicated barcode scanner, phones are pretty terrible for this.
Re: Amazon Dash
#48If its real, this is going to revolutionize grocery shopping. Also, open up a new market for such devices.
It is only available in 3 cities, has technology easily deployable to smartphones, and the prices apparently aren't any better.
I always wish I could try amazonfresh, but like Google Fiber they are snails at deployment. And Amazon doesn't even have the "company has no experience with end user distribution" since that is literally their primary business.
Re: Amazon Dash
#49"Dash ... works directly with your AmazonFresh account" Which means it is only available in three locations (SoCal/SF/Seattle).
SoCal is too big of an area to claim. It only works in a handful of zipcodes in So Cal. Source: I live in So Cal.
For anyone who's curious, it works in LA.
Re: Amazon Dash
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure that would help them. Amazon Fresh doesn't have a great record for beating grocery store pricing. See http://www.cnet.com/news/amazonfresh-vs-supermarket-a-hands-... which matches my personal experience when I've compared baskets of products my family commonly purchases. I will say when we used it, the produce quality was very good which was one of my concerns. Seems like they went above and beyond to ad…
The prices will probably drop once they've got more fulfillment centers close to the large metropolitan areas.
Grocery is really low margin, and hard to make money on when you factor in delivery. Source: I worked for a grocery distributor for six years.