Amazon is reportedly developing an AI-centric smartphone
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I’ll take “infrastructure pretending to be a person that cannot learn from the past” for $500 Alex!
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I had the first Firephone. It was delightfully weird. But not delightful enough for me to have for more than a year.
Hard pass on this one, though.
Hard pass on this one, though.
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This'll go great. I know that so many people are looking for a smartphone phone that doesn't have any apps. /s
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Remember the Fire Phone, it's back.... but in pog AI form!
It should be illegal to lay people off whilst profitable and spaffing money on absolute boondoggles like this.
It should be illegal to lay people off whilst profitable and spaffing money on absolute boondoggles like this.
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Which group of people are more brainwormed:
1) The board of Boeing
2) The board of Stellantis
3) The Amazon execs who greenlit this product
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The only possible "inspiration" is that both of these things are phones; Light Phone has no app store because it's got nothing but the basics baked in, not because it's leveraging AI. This is like saying Kawasaki Ninja "took inspiration" from a Cannondale bicycle.
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Some random Amazon executive who, after being told WE MUST PUT AI IN EVERYTHING AND WE MUST BE A LEADER IN AI AND AI IS THE FUTURE for the 10,000th time muttered "I don't know, AI-powered phone?" and went back to cursing his miserable existence in this stupid tech moment. And everybody up the ladder was happy that someone finally had an AI idea they could take credit for. And so it was born.
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Lol, they can keep that shit. It's hard enough keeping the AI weeds at bay on my current phone.
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Conductor: NEXT STOP! WILLOUGHBY!
Conductor: NEXT STOP! WILLOUGHBY!
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This is a solved problem on literally every other smartphone out there. Apps.
I use apps for banking, travel, shopping, and so on. How is that going to work? I know all of these things have websites I could use but the apps work much better on a phone. If their answer is to just let the AI do everything the apps were doing, well... no.
This phone could be free and it would still be a hard pass.
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Wait, what?
I'm not a programmer, but I'm pretty sure that's not how LLM's or OS's work.
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I hope they actually produce this phone. I hope they spend a metric f##k ton of money developing it, marketing it, getting it on retail shelves and in carrier stores. Then I hope it fails spectacularly. Maybe, just maybe then they'll realize the masses don't want AI shoved into everything and we will actively avoid it when given the option.
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This is an incredibly stupid idea.
I mostly use my phone as a phone, but I still need a few apps like Door to unlock the e-locks in my apartment building, Lyft since I don't drive, Microsoft Authenticator and Google Authenticator for MFA.
Having no apps might be sort of OK for a $50 Fire tablet used to watch videos but it is not going to work for a phone.
I mostly use my phone as a phone, but I still need a few apps like Door to unlock the e-locks in my apartment building, Lyft since I don't drive, Microsoft Authenticator and Google Authenticator for MFA.
Having no apps might be sort of OK for a $50 Fire tablet used to watch videos but it is not going to work for a phone.
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Why can't they figure out how to make their own App Store actually good?
They forked Android but can't use any of Bezos' couch money to make something else besides questionable knock-off products?
Wait. I just answered my own question, didn't I?
They forked Android but can't use any of Bezos' couch money to make something else besides questionable knock-off products?
Wait. I just answered my own question, didn't I?
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They're hoping that you'll use their smartphone for shopping. In particular, to shop for a better smartphone.
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If I was a betting man, I'd bet this phone would be free or extremely subsidized and heavily locked down to primarily drive users to Amazon properties that generates subscription, ad, and other revenue. Very much an "own nothing and be happy" device that appeals to the growing broke-as-shit-addicted-consumer demographic.
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This is the way. I'm all for AI failures. This is a dumb idea, I wish them an expensive and elaborate failure rather than a swift and easy cancellation.
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brain farts are accidental slips. This is much more deliberate. More a brain post- stool softener BM.
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Maybe has a chance if the phone, and service, are free with Amazon prime? I see no other scenario where this works...
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That's not what the Reuters article said. They cited the Light Phone for being "minimalist," they never said it uses AI.
Reuters:
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Amazon: We're making a phone!
Me: No, thanks.
Amazon: But it's AI-centric!
Me: Oh? Sorry! HELL NO!
Me: No, thanks.
Amazon: But it's AI-centric!
Me: Oh? Sorry! HELL NO!
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