Amazon Can Now Deliver Your Next iPhone With a Drone

[SAIRUS]

There's absolutely no way that anyone will be dumb enough to shoot at it....

There are no guns in Texas right?

 

[tornadowrangler]

If you told someone in the 1960s that one day a flying robot would be able to deliver a computer that fits in their pocket to their backyard, they might think it was a scene from The Jetsons. However, that is now a very real possibility.

While in the 1960s, they didn't have high expectations for our advancements in computers, from what I've read they did think we would be far more advanced in things like space, medicine, transportation, and energy production, than we currently are.

 

[JohnC1959]

Phoenix, during daylight hours?

Are the packages insulated? The heat would cook your device during delivery.

I imagine the drones must be designed to deal with the heat too

🥵

I have a small drone I've played with here in Tucson. On hot days the battery drains too fast to get any real flights in.

 

[russell_314]

The price of iPhones just went way down 😂

Come here little drone!

 

[Andreas from Zurich]

A prediction: it won’t take long till bandit drones start to follow the delivery ones and collect whatever they dropped.

 

[mozumder]

What if a bird grabs my brand new iPhone while it’s still in the air?

Just call it and ask for your phone back.

 

[RickDEGH]

In my country you are not even allowed to fly a drone over private property

Let me guess, Deutschland? 😄

 

[ZMacintosh]

no

 

[Joe Rossignol]

Whoever photoshopped that image doesn't really get drones (or propellers) work lol

It's a quick little unserious mockup. Not a big deal.

 

[neuropsychguy]

Who wants to bet that it's AI generated?

Quick mock-up. The box is too fat and big, but let's pretend it has extra padding for protection inside.

 

[Wags]

Chinese made drones?

 

[2DeedleD]

I can see hackers hijacking delivery drones

until its a FELONY. Big tech has lobbyists too. Just keeping it real.

 

[jlc1978]

There are no guns in Texas right?

I get your point, but committing a Federal offense against a company that can get the Fed's attention would not be a good idea.

Me, I'd be more worried about my dog learning the drone brings chew toys to her; or the drone is a chew toy. Assuming the propellers stop while dropping the cargo a few good bites an a few propellers could be a problem, or getting hit and hurt by one.

What I don't get is how they avoid obstacles. My neighborhood is full of trees and landing a drone would not be a straight down shot. If each drone has a piot it wouldn't be cost effective, even multiple drones to one person in a control center could be challenging.

until its a FELONY. Big tech has lobbyists too. Just keeping it real.

Yea, but I think, given you have no idea what high value cargo is being carried, it is easier just to porch pirate. OTOH, hackers looking for laughs rerouting drones ...

 

[2DeedleD]

I get your point, but committing a Federal offense against a company that can get the Fed's attention would not be a good idea.

Me, I'd be more worried about my dog learning the drone brings chew toys to her; or the drone is a chew toy.

What I don't get is how they avoid obstacles. My neighborhood is full of trees and landing a drone would not be a straight down shot.



Yea, but I think, given you have no idea what high value cargo is being carried, it is easier just to porch pirate. OTOH, hackers looking for laughs rerouting drones ...

What a time to be alive. Such is life.

 

[Siliconguy]

Not in this wind they are not. What is the max wind speed for a small drone to operate safely?

 

[johnnygee]

The arguments against drone deliveries remind me of the arguments against the Apple Watch:
1. This'll never sell. Hain't nobody buyin' no watches.
2. Hain't nobody buyin' no square watches.
3. Hain't nobody gonna spend no $350 on no watch. 🤣

 

[Rogue AI]

Why would we want this?

 

[NeoSe7en]

I’ll never understand what would posses someone to trust Amazon with delivering an $700+ item. They can’t even deliver a box of bandages properly.

 

[NightfallOrchid]

I’ll never understand what would posses someone to trust Amazon with delivering an $700+ item. They can’t even deliver a box of bandages properly.

I’ve ordered much more expensive things than that on Amazon, without any issues whatsoever…

 

[Hank001]

So much for Free Delivery. Oh well, good while it lasted.

 

[Damian83]

Amazon today announced
and
Amazon launched its Prime Air drone delivery in 2022

So, today or in 2022??

 

[chickenpiccata]

A Jetsons reference, you don't see that every day. Macrumors is hipper than I thought. (And older!)

"It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an Amazon Drone!!!"

I'm even older.....

 

[Damian83]

I’ll never understand what would posses someone to trust Amazon with delivering an $700+ item. They can’t even deliver a box of bandages properly.

Right, for pesimists
Optimists buys even far more expensive items on amazon and receive them without any issues

 

[JohnC1959]

I’ll never understand what would posses someone to trust Amazon with delivering an $700+ item. They can’t even deliver a box of bandages properly.

Right, for pesimists
Optimists buys even far more expensive items on amazon and receive them without any issues

Maybe three times over the years I've had an item disappear into a black hole but no damaged items and they refunded me for the few that got lost. Worst case is that on rare occasions you may have to wait a bit longer.

 

[JTK Awesome]

If it can deliver onto my balcony, why not?

can it send back the 90 empty amazon boxes in my kitchen?

Just pick a box and put it on top of the drone as it hovers nearby.

There's absolutely no way that anyone will be dumb enough to shoot at it....

“It hovered for a second and I blasted it to smithereens.”

Woman shoots drone: “It hovered for a second and I blasted it to smithereens.”

Virginian used 20-gauge shotgun against offending aircraft thought to be paparazzi.

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