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

• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would it not get asked? It’s the most obvious, logical followup

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        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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    • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As a shareholder, you are financially incentivised to not question narratives the company presents if they supposedly present the company in a good light.

      Suppose you do ask, the narrative unravels and the share price tanks. Congrats, you’ve just lost a buttload of money. Why would you do that?

      No, best option is to applaud loudly, tout it in the press and watch useful idiots buy your shares at inflated prices.

      The people who do ask the questions are the people the company doesn’t feel obliged to answer.

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That doesn’t make any sense. Nothing unravels, numbers moved from one chart to another. The big number didn’t actually change.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not usually. These people tend to be really stupid. There’s a reason why businesses degrees are made fun of so much.

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, do you have any examples of companies trying to pull this? Where they automigrate one base of users to another tier of whatever it may be, and then successfully pretend it was organic growth?

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re talking internal accountability. That doesn’t apply at this scale.

      The accountability here is to shareholders. And they don’t care about why, just quarterly profits and growth.

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is a good one: lemmy.world/post/41564641

      Amazon also got in trouble for auto enrolling people in prime.

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is a good one: https://lemmy.world/post/41564641

        Did you link the wrong post?

        Amazon also got in trouble for auto enrolling people in prime.

        In trouble with investors for tricking them?

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    • verdi@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Microslop and automigration to the copilot containing 365 sub rather than the default lower priced sub.

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      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They automatically moved customers to a tier that cost them more money than it did for them previously?

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