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Committed skeptic flags himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck
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Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger.
Key facts
- The second, which the reporter want to talk about today as the reporter fly back from AWS's NYC Summit, is Quick Desktop
- On a Mac it's half a gigabyte because of course it is; this is totally normal and fine in 2026
- At one point during their time using Quick Desktop, the reporter was logged out and had to log back
- The point isn't the snark; it's that Quick Desktop only knows about the channels its connectors deign to support
Summary
If you live long enough, you'll wake up one day and find that you're living in a world you no longer understand. The first is that, late last year, they acquired Bee, an AI wearable that is distressingly, upsettingly good. Yes, the reporter knows this sounds like the reporter is being blackmailed. Amazon has spent the last three years breathlessly telling them that they're a leader in AI, then shipping products which make it clear that they're unsure what leadership looks like.