Tue. 11/27 - Why Is Shopping On Amazon So Hard? (Replacement)




Techmeme Ride Home show

Summary: <p><strong><em>AWS goes the custom silicon route, Facebook Watch goes after the olds, will Microsoft leapfrog Apple and why does Amazon’s shopping experience suck so much?</em></strong></p><p><strong>Sponsors:</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/ridehome" target="_blank"><strong>DataDogHQ.com/ridehome</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.tiny.website/" target="_blank"><strong>Tiny.website</strong></a></li> <li><a href="https://www.lightstream.com/ride" target="_blank"><strong>Lightstream.com/ride</strong></a></li> </ul><p><br></p><p>Stories from: @katienotopoulos, @ShiraOvide</p><p>Tweets: @ajassy, @AlexSchleber</p><p>Links:</p><ul> <li>Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads (GeekWire)</li> <li>Facebook's YouTube competitor is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and publishers balk (CNBC)</li> <li>Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock (Krebs on Security)</li> <li>Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay (CoinDesk)</li> <li>Apple has an idea to make Animoji even more fun (Cult of Mac)</li> <li>Don’t Look Now, But Microsoft Is Overtaking Apple (Bloomberg)</li> <li>What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website? (BuzzFeed)</li> </ul> <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/34f8474/podcast/sponsor/acugia/url/https%3A%2F%2Fflipboard.com%2F">https://flipboard.com/</a>