Fuck AI

Oh yes! A smartphone for continuous surveillance of people. This world is ending. 

We’re looking forward to the launch of the new Amazon kindle ai phone! It’ll be the industry leading standard in how to read the customer base And completely fucking flop within 24 hours

Isnt this everything at the moment?

Even if this thing HAD a 3.5mm jack, I'd send this junk back.

low prices.

Oh. That's the angle.

Amazon will basically give these away, like Prime. And at least some people will lap them up because they can't help themselves.

With absolutely zero offense intented, I just saw another Lemmy user complain about ads on Prime Video, apparently unaware that they're now gated by an additional subscription. And any Lemmy user has to be in the top 1% of "enshittification awareness." That was always the plan, but our monkey brains often cannot help themselves when we see a short-term deal.

Thanks, I hate it.

Didn’t learn anything from the failed Fire Phone garbage?

Also, these could be interesting as a "dirt cheap phone to root."

Amazon will subsidize the snot out of them. I'll take their money, thanks very much.

"Alexa call an ambulance!"

Ordered an amber lance, Prime delivery in eight hours

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.

And I’m currently developing a plan to not buy it.

Didn't they fail at phones once already

Cant wait to hear how much of your personal data it steals

The only people that are asking for this bought the fire phone

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?

Finally.

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.

Fire Phone 2

Don't forget they gimped all their FireTV devices lately, you would have to be mad to buy an Amazon phone.

No one's asked for this

nothing but ewaste that we will end up paying for. can these companies honestly just... fuck off already. nothing but cancer.

Just what we've all been wanting!