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Well the main point of the article was "it's all hot air and baloney". His logistical issues seem like he's grasping for anything he can to discredit the idea.
by watty 13y ago
Well the main point of the article was "it's all hot air and baloney". His logistical issues seem like he's grasping for anything he can to discredit the idea. With his added sarcasm ("any second now"), I'd put him in the exact same camp as the NY Times writer.
- frogpelt 13y agoNo, he's not grasping. He didn't called it "hot air and baloney" because he thinks it would never physically work. He called it that because he believes it was timed to coincide with Cyber Monday. The bureaucratic hurdles for this are too numerous to mention. It goes in the Hyperloop-from-LA-to-NYC category. I doubt he's missed the mark since there's not many other logical reasons for Amazon to announce this possibility five years in advance. It's Amazon.com marketing hype. Go buy something.
- skoh-fley 13y agoWhether or not it's hype isn't at issue. Hype can exist for real things. Sure, this may be a very well timed reveal, and it's probably not an accident. But that doesn't make the idea any less real.
- jasonlotito 13y agoIt's Dan Lyons. He's grasping. > I doubt he's missed the mark since there's not many other logical reasons for Amazon to announce this possibility five years in advance. Getting public support early so they have an easier time of getting the legislation passed to make this possible. Getting public support early so they can get people thinking/accepting of drop off locations in and around their homes and businesses. Getting people interested in working for a forward thinking company, and therefore attracting engineers wanting to work on interesting things. But no. It's just marketing hype. You know what is purely hype in order to get page views? This article by Lyons.