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Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago (13 children)

Between inserting ads into Amazon Video, scaling back on fast delivery, and this it looks like Amazon has maxed out their growth and are scaling back on their loss leaders that were used to get where they are.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (11 children)

For the first time in at least a decade of being a Prime member. I have set a reminder to cancel before it renews next time.

So many deliveries fail to be on time, I'm getting too many ads in my face when I use products I paid for (Fire TV auto-plays ads for content or cars or whatever now).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Cancel now! It's incredibly convoluted process that makes you think you've done it but no, there's always one more confirm screen hiding behind a tiny button

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Last time I canceled it it was very easy to do (amazon.ca)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Nah, I've paid for it and it seems there's no refund.

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