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Amazon Surpasses Apple and Google to Become World's Most Valuable Brand
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Whats changed? This sense of entitlement, and sheer laziness. The term "work ethic" doesn't exist, it's "victim," now. This generation is whining cause they can't be bothered to put in an actual 40 hours. It interupts their video gaming, and you know, how deeply that effects their intentional massacre of any interpersonal skills. Wut? u hrd me
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Because you're all sheep and you drank their cool-aid silly. There is more $$$ in data mining your data, but keep using them cause everyone else does. (Facebook: "We'll be your Jim Jones baby
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Standing ovation...I swear those are my exact words and experience, until they blacklisted my 9,1 iMac cause it couldn't run Mojave. So I decided Apple was just moving forward in tech, and I happily bought a new iMac, but it was almost $3,000 for the same functionality my 9,1 had. Then Imagine My Surprise....when my new iMac didn't come with Mojave on it. Ya I'm one satisfied Apple zealot...
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Yup, worker peeing in bottles, low wages and worth the read is this book.
https://www.jessicabruder.com/nomadland-ii
probably as poorly as most of our current economy that's based around credit purchasing.
Workers can leave any time they want. McDonald's by me is always looking for new crew members.
Option 2 is to get additional education and skills needed for higher paying jobs. That is the route many take to escape entry level jobs.
Knowing this, i quit buying from Amazon since a couple of years ago.
And deleted my credit cards details from the account.
I am not a compulsive buyer anymore and now prefer going in "real" stores, even if prices, sometimes, might
be higher than on Amazon.
Agree completely. I've never had a problem with Amazon. In the past ten years, I've had to contact Customer Service twice (a bit hard to find but that's understandable) but when I did, the phone was answered quickly, and problem solved with that one phone call, and always in my favor.
Still not known in many places. Like the Netherlands hardly anyone knows or uses it since we have local suppliers who do the same but better.
Sadly I heard they are working to come to the Netherlands which if they can make it work would be a big hit for the local economy... This kind of companies tend to destroy lots of jobs for local suppliers which is bad for everyone. Especially cause they tend to do their best at avoiding taxes like Apple.
The same for me. And the 30 day return (60 during Christmas holiday period) is amazing. Usually when I return something my credit card is credited within a few hours of dropping of the item at UPS, days before Amazon receives it to inspect.
Because back in the day when Apple almost failed as a company I recommended Apple to co-workers, friends, and family because of the great tech they provided to Pros like myself.
For the last 5 years I have not made one Apple recommendation, and have even guided co-workers, friends, and family away from Apple. Why, because all they have been making are Teen Toys. If this is a change in strategy back to the old days of supporting both "easy to use" and "technologically advanced" users, then I'll change my tone, provided that their quality goes back up. While I don't influence a lot of people, the more Pros that are happy with Apple the better the more recommendations from people in the know.
So it is not the Pro user base, it is the Pro user base influence.
Makes sense, people default to buying from them now, especially Prime deals.
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You don't know how your cell service is going to be until you buy. People buy AT&T just cause they trust it. Otherwise, you buy something cheaper and risk having bad service, like store brand vs name brand.
If you can criticize something of Amazon is how they treat their workers, but not their customers. Their customer service is top notch as many have said here, and my experience with Amazon has been so.
Considering you mention the Amazon branded products", I highly doubt you've bought and tested "them all" as you say, and if they were junk you could have returned them anyway getting your money back, hence making it a good customer service thus contradicting yourself.
That means that the warehouse jobs shouldn't exist if the solution is to retrain to change careers. I am sure Amazon and other sectors will be ok by not having seasonal workers.
Not at all. It means that workers have choices. If they want to work low skilled jobs, they should not expect the same pay as someone that works a high skilled job. And if they want the higher pay, they need to add skills. It is all about choices you make.
That is such a simplistic outlook on labor and workers retraining. In the not too distant future, a radiologist's job will be in danger because a computer can read the images better than the radiologist's eye. But yeah, the radiologist can restrain to become a quantum physicist because he can build next generation of computing.
If you are comfortable sharing your line of work, I can fairly easily concoct a situation where you have to retrain to something outlandish. Let's try that experiment.
Amazon is killing it with Fire TV, Fire tablet and to an extent Echo line of products. Many including myself have dropped Chromecast and Apple TV in favor of Fire TV Stick 4K, Fire tablet in place of iPad but will likely stick with Google Assistant smarts so that means Google Nest Hub Max, Lenovo Smart Clock, etc.