@daringfireball I'm not a likely buyer, but what I would like is more competition and more consumer choice.

Two flavors are not enough.

@daringfireball In my opinion, Amazon doesn’t have the taste to create something consumers will salivate over and doesn’t have the restraint to not muck it up the same way they did with Fire phone.

I recently set up a Fire tablet for my dad. The “nicer“ aluminum one. Its software is TRASH!

@daringfireball Given how much Amazon likes to advertise and degrade the user experience on their existing hardware, I find their desire to make it easier to spend money on Amazon services to be the exact opposite of what I am looking for in a phone.

An Amazon phone is just asking for the most hostile relationship between the company and customer.

@daringfireball “rather than apps* the new phone is agentic. Tell it what you want and agents using Alexa will spin off and accomplish your goals”

Data and token plan not included.

* apps we don’t have and miserably failed to get for the Fire phone. That was a debacle we all knew was coming.