What happens when little Johnny pushes the button 350 times?
Children aren't very intrigued by buttons.
Yeah, the 2-in-1 tablets/laptops seem like obviously the thing. To get. A friend has been flirting with a tablet purchase, and I keep saying: Dude, go for a 2-in-1. A convertible thing. It seems so obviously superior.
I'm pretty hard on my equipment (laydeez!) so I tend to buy rugged stuff. I just don't see something like a 2-in-1 laptop lasting very long.
"What happens when little Johnny pushes the button 350 times?"
According to the article, you get a message that you've ordered 350 cases of Tide on your phone; so you can cancel the order.
If you're paying attention, I guess you can.
My phone is always in my car under the seat with the battery run down. So I'd be out of the luck there.
HELLO? CAN ANYBODY HEAR ME? .....IS THIS THING ON?
HUH.... WRONG THREAD.
FIGURES.
These days I'm coveting the Microsoft Hololense, because Minecraft.
1 to 7. Just wait a few years: "Daddy, look out the window!"
The Microsoft Holoflense, on the other hand, is nothing to look forwards to.
A special device so you can order more Maxwell House right away? What the fuck is wrong with people?
1: I thought I read that it just ordered one, and didn't do it again at least until the first order was delivered.
I want a physical button that pokes other people, in their houses.
Do they have a button-ordering button?
Last night, I was telling my girlfriend about the Amazon button thing, and she refused to believe that it wasn't an April Fool's joke. Even after I found several news articles saying basically, "No, for reals, this button thing is not an April Fool's joke."
I want to get those tags you stick on your keys so that you can find them. I also want one for the remote.
15: are you suggesting that the product designers have actually thought through and addressed some of the obvious potential flaws that sprung to mind immediately, and that if I read the link in the OP maybe I would know that?
The alligators and hookers are naturally attracted to the scent of Maxwell House.
Enough people have taken April Fool's jokes seriously over the years that today's Globe joke story had a headline above it, "April 1."
is a pretty good name for a boy (Microsofte if it's a girl).
8/9:
Cloisim thú, a Mháirtín! Cén chaoi a bhfuil tú? Aon scéal?
So actually I just mixed up Martin O'Malley and Marty Walsh (who allegedly speaks some Irish).
SOMEBODY NOTICED ME!
YOU'RE NOT FROM IOWA BY ANY CHANCE....
Amazon's really upping its game these days, having introduced, a couple of days ago, Amazon Home Services (yes, that's a Slate link, sorry).
Amazon is describing Home Services as an "invite-only marketplace" for those service providers. It's also promising to price all its services upfront, and to match cheaper local rates if customers come across them.
My first thought on reading this was: if I were Amazon, I wouldn't touch that with a ten-foot pole. Peddling goods is one thing; peddling services is quite another. For example: matching cheaper local rates if customers find them? Does that mean that someone who's agreed to walk your dog for X dollars per hour will find that s/he's actually going to be reimbursed X-5 dollars if the customer finds a cheaper rate elsewhere? That's going to go over swell with the dog-walker. For another example: Amazon is promising a "Happiness Guarantee". Huh. I'm afraid there's a huge amount of room for customer shenanigans there. I dearly hope the poor dog being walked doesn't wind up crapping on the floor of the home later. Customer is not happy: no payment for you, dog-walker! Amazon customers have already, in increasing numbers, begun to figure out how to game its system by claiming that their item was not received, or that it was defective -- there are youtube videos explaining how to do it.
The Slate article links to an interesting piece on the 1099 or "gig economy" being sued to death.
I can't get over how brilliant the order button is.
The Slate article links to an interesting piece on the 1099 or "gig economy" being sued to death.
I didn't read the slate article, but that link was very interesting.
It is brilliant. You know Amazon has some thing already whereby you can set up recurring orders for basic items, like a jug of Maxwell House delivered regularly every month, or Pampers delivered once a week. I believe a number of plain old brick-and-mortar stores that do delivery have had such a recurring order arrangement in place for some time.