Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/03/01/amazon-cancels-dash-buttons.html
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Who used these anyways?
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I have the AWS one that you could program. I played with it for a few days getting it tied into ITTT (No easy task) and got it to turn on and off my light. I then ignored it after that and no idea if it still works.
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The Dash button isn’t nearly as necessary as it used to be.
What a novel use of a worn-out old word.
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Curious about the next-gen Amazon Replenishment Service mentioned in the article, where the “reorder consumables from Amazon” function is embedded in the appliance itself. Does anybody here have one of these, and can you tell me: how does it decide what brand/type of consumable to buy, and when that type is discontinued, does that brick your whole appliance?
(Personally, I live in fear of the the day I end up renting an apartment with Amazon-connected appliances that won’t let me opt out of the Amazonian ecosystem.)
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Tools of corporate brand names, who actually cared that they always got brand x of thing y even when other choices were cheaper/better.
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I interpret the whole lifecycle of this phenomenon as:
20-something tech bros in 2009: We’ve internettified all the things mom used to do for us!
30-something tech bros in 2019: We have wives now! Dash button no longer necessary.
(Which is not to say that other people can’t find these things useful or repurpose them to other needs, just that the Silicon Valley business pitch has always looked pretty much like What Bros Want.)
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At least the Dash button gave me control over when I ordered (not that I used one). I would be reluctant to turn over ordering to the Internet of Shit, because Amazon prices fluctuate, and my bathroom would probably decide to restock toilet paper when the price spiked.
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can i set up a dash button via gift card to send bees to an address of my choosing?
if not i can see no use for them
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So you are saying we should stock up and sell them once the wave of divorces hits?
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MacKenzie
Wellllll, just yesterday, i was wondering if one could be repurposed to book me an impromptu day’s leave from work, with a little fiddling and possibly some extra hardware.
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made a doorbell out of one of them. i only have one spare so i guess when the spare dies i’ll have to figure out something else. they are a royal PITA to get open to replace the battery…
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How can something be worse than useless?!?
Oh wait… I see it now, nm.
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Somewhat related. I found a dash button in a cupboard that my ex-wife bought some years ago. It was for a big tub of those green dog treats that are supposed to help clean the dogs teeth. I pushed the button malicisuiously. A few days later a tub of treats showed up. My ex-never noticed the charge. It all felt like a Pavlovian test.
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Good boy!
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It depends… are they ill-tempered?
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I was impressed by the guy who hacked the Dash button so that it could be used to report airport noise, automatically identifying the airplane overhead and generating the necessary FAA paperwork to file a complaint. I wonder if his system will be taken out by this shift by Amazon?
WSJ: Airplane Noise Complaints Are Skyrocketing - ‘I Start Pushing That Button at 6:33 a.m.’
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