Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions
by cynicalsecurity on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:57AM
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That sounds really noble, but unfortunately, the world revolves around money. It's not just the psychopath hedge funds investors, a sweet old lady living next door to you would start killing and stealing if she suddenly wouldn't have anything to eat.
Other systems like communism floped and failed royally. Feufalism or slavery are out of question, they are pure vomit, even though Russians live under feudalism.
Business and charity are different things, you can't mix them.
Alexa is a lame product. People still have it simply because they feel bad about throwing it out. No one wants smart homes, people want cheap and affordable homes. No customer wants quick or convenient buying process, people are looking for cheap or at least not overpriced products and services instead. And putting way too sophisticated AI in Alexa would be stupidly expensive.
Maybe they are and we need time to see the pivot in market forces. I just want to take this moment to go on record that only seeing technology as a profit-making machine defeats the purposes of human progress. Let this be a lesson to the rest of you trying to be the next Amazon - it's not working for them. They're losing billions on Alexa and it's all their fault. You aren't bigger, faster, meaner, or better than Amazon. The only thing you can do - the only thing you must do - is focus on your customers as human beings, not just as cash registers.