Reuters said the phone is codenamed Transformer
AI integration is a “key focus” of Transformer, per Reuters’ sources, who said that Amazon wants the phone to drive usage of Amazon’s AI products
It’s unclear why Amazon thinks now is a good time to get back into phones. Even potentially low prices may not be enough to convince people to buy.
You ARE looking forward to this, right?
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I developed my own plan immediately, and I think I can help you with yours. My final plan is to not buy it.
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Cant wait to hear how much of your personal data it steals
All of it.
Spend your time somewhere else. The answer is: yes
What do you mean by ‘steals’ or ‘personal’? People who buy this are willingly giving everything to Amazon by buying this.
Amazon apparently has decided it has way too much capital on its hands, so it wants to pile it up a ton of cash out in the backyard, douse it with gasoline, and then smirk like a little imp as it strikes a match.
More power to 'em, I guess?
Didn’t they fail at phones once already
Time to f-AI-l
“Alexa call an ambulance!”
Ordered an amber lance, Prime delivery in eight hoursGross. I also saw some laptops labeld as AI powered.
Immediate pass.
I don’t need my tech to be telling me 2+2=5
Thanks, I hate it.
Didn’t learn anything from the failed Fire Phone garbage?
fyre phone
The only people that are asking for this bought the fire phone
Oh yes! A smartphone for continuous surveillance of people. This world is ending.
I mean… we have that already sadly
No app store, have to rely on Alexa, who is definitely collecting and storing your personal data to do things by telling it everything, and a year ago they changed their terms so you can’t opt out of your Alexa recordings being automatically sent to Amazon… every day billionaires are closer and closer to successfully turning our phones into telescreens.
And I bet the phone is gonna be full of ads and product placement too, if it happens. I know before I finally ditched my Alexa over a year ago it was trying to suggest shit for me to buy I didn’t need.
“Alexa phone, call the doctor, I’m sick I need an ap—”
“You sure? This pack of cold medicine on Amazon has 5 star reviews, and is much cheaper than your doctor visit! Would you like me to add it to your cart for same-day delivery?”
Like. That’s maybe a little more time down the line in dystopian hypotheticals, but the vague implications behind the AI doing everything so you don’t have to gives up so much free will, and I’m just saying… it’s a power grab disguised as efficiency. Ugh.
Remember the Fire Phone? It’s back, in slop form!
I think the Alf Pogs are actually more desirable.
I was just going to bring up the Fire Phone!
Amazon has a history of hit and miss devices!
nothing but ewaste that we will end up paying for. can these companies honestly just… fuck off already. nothing but cancer.
Don’t forget they gimped all their FireTV devices lately, you would have to be mad to buy an Amazon phone.
Wait, what did they do? Did I miss more bullshit?
Woof. Most of the reason to even get one of their devices was that it was cheap and you could sideload.
Guess theyre really trying to lose even more customers.
Ah damn it. I got a fire tv a few years ago bc I could side load apps onto it unlike a Roku tv. Hopefully they don’t take down smart tube at least :/
Yeah were kinda fucked ATP for “good” smart TV stuff. You could DIY it with an old PC or raspberry pi but unless we see a push for it from a major player (Like Graphene partnering with Motorola) itll probably be like this for the foreseeable future.
It has not yet been officially reported that I’m developing plans to purchase a Motorola device with Graphene on it. This project has been codenamed “Fuck Google”.
A key focus of this effort is the synergy around a phone without corporate AI, without Google control, and readily available by preinstallation on the device. Research shows this “preinstalled” approach scores highly in the WAF scoring index.
Count me in.
Because their last hype-based smartphone did so well.
