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Comment Re:And? (Score 2) 61

There are other implications of this business practice beyond just what price gets charged for the product.

Amazon has a huge grey market of third-party resellers who sell a mix of regular and 'international edition' (a.k.a. lower cost goods meant for non-english-speaking markets) products for much cheaper than you'd pay elsewhere. For tech products, where this distinction is very subtle and often entirely software-based, many manufacturers make the blanket declaration that Amazon isn't an 'authorized' reseller. The consumer gets screwed over with no warranty or support, and security patches may or may not brick your device (especially if the reseller tried to mask the fact that they were rebranding international editions as english editions).

Comment Re:You know how many of them can solve that? (Score 1) 237

Micro Center has done a great job at in-store pickup for years. Orders are usually ready by the time I get to the store, if I left home right after ordering. Plus you get to bypass the 10+minute checkout line by going through the less busy pickup desk.

On the other hand, I was shocked at how terrible in-store pickup is at JoAnn Fabrics last week. First, with regular in-store purchases they don't price match their own website, which had everything I was planning to buy at 40% off the store price. Second, if I ordered online to get the discount, I'd have to wait 3 hours for the order to be ready at the store. Is either of those options supposed to be appealing?

Comment Re:News? (Score 1) 68

Indeed. I'll replace my current phone (functional, but very much showing wear and age) with a 128gb Pixel XL the second google lists them for sale again, if I'm not too slow, but unless they've really ramped up manufacturing, I'm not totally sure I'll have that chance before the 2017 model is released. The stock tracker (http://www.nowinstock.net/electronics/mobilephones/unlocked/googlepixel/) says it's been in stock something like 9 days throughout the past two months.

Comment Re:AMP sucks! (Score 1) 48

Same thoughts here. I frequently find pages asking me to fill out a form or referring to some page widget and feeling very lost for a bit until I notice I'm still on the AMP version of the page. If I have to load and look through two different versions of a page, that's a waste of my time. But I guess they get to serve ads to me twice so it still benefits them.

Comment Re:Oh for fucks sake (Score 1) 54

You don't necessarily need to look down if there is some meaningful or useful haptic/audio feedback. It's how I know the system has registered presses on the two touch-sensitive buttons that are on my phone now. Even the fingerprint sensor can tell me to retry without having to look down. (Galaxy S6)

Also, honestly curious, not trying to troll: In what sorts of dangerous situations are you thinking of, where using your phone or otherwise being distracted isn't already against the law, workplace rules, or general best practices?

Comment Re:Perhaps if their ads were not so intrusive. (Score 2) 675

Seriously. I turned off ad block to see how their main page looked, and I get two versions of the autoplaying, rapidly animated banner ad. Out of curiosity, I cropped and measured the screen area used by ads and content: 36% ads, 30% headlines/graphics, 34% header/whitespace. That's not really winning me over.

Then again, this commenting page is no better when it loads...

Sources: http://imgur.com/a/8fto4

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