For Christ’s sake, get your streaming service working properly. First, everything we tried to stream failed to load the first time: “Sorry, we are unable to stream your video at this time. Please try again later.” Not fucking helpful. And now things load properly (hooray!), but at about the one-hour point, they Just Stop, and we’re looking at a grey screen. You’d think the biggest fucking retailer on the planet could manage to hire somebody to get their streaming system, you know, the system they’re pinning their FUTURE on, to actually fucking work.
When I search for something, and the first page of search results is over half “sponsored links” that aren’t anywhere near what I want, that counts as a Search Engine Failure in my book. Just knock off with the fucking annoying Sponsored Links and show me what I want, already. Jesus H Christ. At some point, this gets to be annoying enough that people go elsewhere to buy stuff. EBay doesn’t do this shit.
The Kindle Oasis also has page turn buttons. I don’t know why you would want a wireless or wired remote page turn control for that. I can picture that for, well, nearly any other e-book reader, though.
For those with limited arm/hand mobility. For those who read not by holding the Kindle in their hands, but by using a tablet holder, leaving hands free.
There seems to be quite a bit of interest for this, and I’ve seen schemes that enable it, but it usually involves “jail-breaking” the Kindle. I don’t like that.
I wish they’d quit sending me new offers on books that have absolutely no link to books I’ve ordered in the past. I actually quit ordering books 3 or 4 tears ago. I still get email updates from them. Yes I’ve unsubscribed. I go look on Amazon for something and it starts up again. Maddening.
Here’s my problem with all streaming services.
It seems they give top priority to desk top/laptop steaming. All the other devices get second billing. I say this because anytime a streaming services starts to give me problems, I’ll switch over to desktop and the problem is resolved. This still sucks though because internet browsers do not support surround sound.
Next year I’ll probably look elsewhere for Christmas shopping. Every purchase I’ve made since Black Friday has shown up late. A couple of items may not arrive by Christmas which were “next day” delivery. (It should have been called “next year”.)
Let’s ignore how big they are as a retailer for a second, look at how big AWS (Amazon Web Services). That’s their cloud computing side. They’re so big, Netflix stores their movies in Amazon’s cloud and streams it from there.
