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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy (www.androidauthority.com)
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  • 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.
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[–] 19 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Large Shareholders some care about how the line goes up, just that it does. Constantly. Every quarter.

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  • [+] -6 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -2 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Right, but I'm saying the "numbers" aren't influenced by this.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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