Disassembling the Amazon Dash

So basically Amazon is tempting you to place wifi enabled microphones around your house? I sure hope it's only capable of picking up high frequency audio.

Re: Disassembling the Amazon Dash

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Post by flurdy » Tue, May 12, 2015, 9:30 AM UTC

Dash was not an April fools?

Re: Disassembling the Amazon Dash

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Post by michaelt » Tue, May 12, 2015, 9:41 AM UTC

One neat thing Amazon are doing with this product, which I hadn't considered as an "internet of things" option, is making each unit of hardware order a single supplier's goods. All the example buttons say "Tide" or "Bounty" or "Gillette" or "Olay" right on the button - all Procter & Gamble. And the other goods pictured [1] are all brand-name goods with fairly big marketing budgets.

In the jargon of the grocery industry, this means the buttons can be "supplier funded" - Procter & Gamble probably pay Amazon a reasonable portion of the cost of the button, as a marketing method.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/oc/dash-button

Re: Disassembling the Amazon Dash

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Post by alaskamiller » Tue, May 12, 2015, 9:43 AM UTC

kondro wrote: post #3

alaskamiller wrote: post #2

Why not a 2G cellular modem that sends out SMS? WiFi for location?

Cost of carrier access.

Spark Devices negotiated with Telefonica for $3/1mb/mo global data plans. Maybe the bigger question is... why can't there be cheaper data plans available.

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Post by minthd » Tue, May 12, 2015, 10:21 AM UTC

Why does amazon use a module,instead of certifying their own ? this hopes to be a large volume project , so the savings could be considerate.

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Post by bucketsofdirt » Tue, May 12, 2015, 10:34 AM UTC

alaskamiller wrote: post #2

Why not a 2G cellular modem that sends out SMS? WiFi for location?

I think the first gen. kindle put them off of that.