Also, I'm sorry, amazon has absolutely no strength in enterprise marketing, and Microsoft is king of that realm for a reason.
They have the resources to succeed, it's just that it's baked into the company DNA not to focus on the things they need to excel in that market.
What, you don't think the Zune was killer? /s
>They have the resources to succeed, it's just that it's baked into the company DNA not to focus on the things they need to excel in that market.
No, not really. I don't think it's even possible for a "lifestyle gadget" to succeed as long as it has the "Microsoft" name on it, even if Apple secretly designed it for them and MS seriously committed to it.
With the Zune, MS really was focused on making it succeed, and it still failed miserably. As a company, they just don't "get it" (they don't understand what it'd take to succeed in that market), plus their brand is a big negative in that market. IIRC, the Zune didn't even have MS's name or logo on it anywhere, so they even understood that much, but it still wasn't enough.
I think MS trying to make trendy consumer devices is a lot like Jeep trying to make sporty electric cars. It just won't work; the company doesn't understand the market and the consumers won't take the company seriously.
Amazon as a publisher doesn't have the right outlook, mark my word.
I'm watching a TV series and every time I start it (through the Xbox app) it forgets that entire series/season unless I save the season. And even if I save it, it will jump me to the latest episode that I started rather than the one I was watching when I quit.
Edit: also, I've long had a pet peeve with AWS, where they will gladly let you walk through all the steps for setting up an EC2 server before saying "oops, you don't have permission to do that".
When is the last episode you started different than the one you were watching when you quit? Do they auto-play when finishing so if you started episode 2 and watched until episode 6 it would start from episode 2 again?
And it doesn't even (by default) show that season in "recently watched" or other place that's easy to get to!
Hah, took the words out of my mouth. Prime video is the first example that comes to mind.
What do you think the reason is? My thought is, not many people complain loudly so why invest the resources in an overhaul. If it ain't _totally_ broke why rock the boat kinda thing.
That or the engineers build the frontend ;-)