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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy (www.androidauthority.com)
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  • Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus.
  • Users who have been upgraded can revert to the old Alexa by saying, “Alexa, exit Alexa Plus.”
  • One user claims that they were “flooded with ads” after downgrading back to Alexa.
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[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because Microsoft presented numbers that chuds think sound good, so they will want to buy their shares, pushing the share price up. The people who own shares but know the numbers are fud will shut up because idiots are buying their shares at a premium. The people without shares who know better won't buy shares, which doesn't affect the price, and Microsoft just replies nothing to their questions.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Presents them where though?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At a shareholders meeting/end of year report/etc... Does matter as long as it goes public.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, which is where they will either follow up, or just see combined metrics

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I just explained that the shareholders wouldn't do that, because that only risks the shareprice going down, which is against their interests.

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't do what? Read the report they got?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 39 minutes ago

Wouldn't follow up or ask hard questions about combined metrics. It's in their best interest to be enthusiastic about the numbers and push them to less critical media outlets everywhere, so the share price goes up.