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So Amazon does physical goods, has AWS, has digital goods like MGM and Prime. It's literally eating the world. Everything will just be Amazon at some point.

• vishnugupta 5y ago
  > Everything will just be Amazon at some point. It is almost there. When AWS has a blip most of the popular apps/products stop working, including my Roomba
  • HWR_14 5y ago
    Why would your Roomba connect to anything? It's supposed to be an autonomous timed launch, so you don't even need to launch it.
    • ptudan 5y ago
      That's just one way to use the Roomba, I don't think it's "supposed" to be anything. Most have an app that lets you press a button to start it, presumably that app and the base station all connect through AWS
      • HWR_14 5y ago
        If it's just a more convenient way to push a button on the Roomba (or avoid waiting for the timer) than the statement that a bunch of products stopped working was pretty misleading.
  • wenc 5y ago
    For Roomba specifically, this is not true. It doesn’t stop working. The app stops working yes but there’s a button on the machine you can press to start a job. It’s the same deal with my Anova sous vide circulator, my Nest etc. Their apps requires cloud access yes. But all of them can function without it. source: Roomba 675 / Anova / Nest owner.
• andrew_ 5y ago
  If you've seen Wall-E, you might be able to imagine a world where Buy-n-Large is Amazon.
• themadturk 5y ago
  Well, except for the part of the world that's Disney...