SahwaJan 13

Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy

https://reddthat.com/post/58092752

Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy - Reddthat

-Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus. -Users who have been upgraded can revert to the old Alexa by saying, “Alexa, exit Alexa Plus.” -One user claims that they were “flooded with ads” after downgrading back to Alexa.

Show threadVeedemJan 13
They probably need to show investors that the money spent developing it is worth it. “We’ve added X amount of users this quarter alone!”
Show threadnullJan 13
Maybe, but how do they respond to the followup “Nice! How?”
Show threadPabloSexcrowbarJan 13
That’s probably not a question that’ll get asked, unfortunately. What will get asked is why those numbers dropped off abruptly the next quarter.
Show threadnullJan 13
Why would it not get asked? It’s the most obvious, logical followup
Show threadhalcyoncmdrJan 13
Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.
Show threadnullJan 13
Then they wouldn’t even be the people getting told this information about subscription numbers, so I’m still not sure how it’s supposed to work
Show threadhalcyoncmdrJan 13
Subscription info is definitely part of the information provided to investors. The raw numbers may not be in the financial documents, but revenue from subscriptions most definitely is and will give a general idea of changes even if the company doesn’t give the numbers directly.
Show threadnullJan 13
Right, but again, if they’re that birds-eye-view, then the bump in subs in one spot is negated by the drop in the other and the net result they’re looking at is what they care about.
Show threadhalcyoncmdrJan 13

Shareholders are dumb panicky creatures. As long as the numbers aren’t terrible and you say some nice things most of them take it as gospel.

Spinning shit as a positive is a full time career in the corporate world after all.

Show threadnullJan 13
Right, but I’m saying the “numbers” aren’t influenced by this.
Show threadhalcyoncmdr

They are as far as the shareholders are concerned if Amazon is telling them about different tiers of subscription. The bullshit the company spins is just as, if not more, important than the raw numbers. Especially when companies only report mandated info and the raw numbers they’re referencing aren’t disclosed for comparison.

Statistics is the art of making up a narrative you want to show via numbers, and finding a way to say it exists regardless of reality.

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Show threadnullJan 14

if Amazon is telling them about different tiers of subscription

Which, as I said, means it all comes out in the wash. If revenue is +100% here and -100% there, it’s 0%. Either they are looking big picture, and that’s what they see, or they’re zoomed in and therefore in a scenario where they would ask the follow up.

They care about revenue going up. It doesn’t go up, unless it does.

Show threadWhyJiffieJan 14
except that the new subscription costs more, and has AI features. now the line did go up, and investors can be told that people want AI
Show threadnullJan 14
It costs more? People we being automatically switched to a tier that costs more money?