Tue. 11/27 - Why Is Shopping On Amazon So Complicated?




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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> <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-web-services-introduces-custom-designed-arm-server-processor-promises-45-percent-lower-costs-workloads/" target="_blank">Amazon Web Services introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, promises 45 percent lower costs for some workloads</a> (GeekWire)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/26/facebook-watch-pivoting-older-audiences-teens-tuning-out.html" target="_blank">Facebook's YouTube competitor is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and publishers balk</a> (CNBC)</li> <li> <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/11/half-of-all-phishing-sites-now-have-the-padlock/" target="_blank">Half of all Phishing Sites Now Have the Padlock</a> (Krebs on Security)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.coindesk.com/civil-startup-token-crypto-ethereum" target="_blank">Employees Say Startup Civil Hyped Crypto Returns, But Failed to Pay</a> (CoinDesk)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.cultofmac.com/592782/apple-has-an-idea-to-make-animoji-even-more-fun/" target="_blank">Apple has an idea to make Animoji even more fun</a> (Cult of Mac)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-26/microsoft-overtakes-apple-by-doing-what-it-does-best" target="_blank">Don’t Look Now, But Microsoft Is Overtaking Apple</a> (Bloomberg)</li> <li> <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/amazon-website-sucks" target="_blank">What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website?</a> (BuzzFeed)</li> </ul> <a href="https://anchor.fm/s/34f8474/podcast/sponsor/acugia/url/https%3A%2F%2Fflipboard.com%2F">https://flipboard.com/</a>