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Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by creato on Wednesday July 24, 2024 @10:59PM (#41064358)
> They try this with things like screws,

“Try” being the key word, because it is useless. It maybe could work if vendors populated the metadata correctly, but they don’t, and amazon put far too many similar categories into it, so you can’t actually filter on most of the parameters without filtering out most of the options you wanted to see, or selecting dozens of options.

Re:Alexa Is in Households–and Amazon Is Losing Billions by marcosdumay on Thursday July 25, 2024 @12:05PM (#41070258)
The concept of a marketplace just isn't compatible with the concept of Alexa.

If you do both, at least one will fail. Every time.

You can probably mangle one of those concepts enough for them to become compatible. But you'll end up with something very different.