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Yup, I keep seeing Amazon trying to run these types of events that show very little respect for the intellectual property generated, creativity employed, and time and effort expended.

They are in full on "suck" mode for their own self interest.

Meanwhile throwing tons of money at another thermostat company.

Yawn.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-alexa-fund-has-invest...

Amazon need to realize that from the outside they appear cheap, arrogant and out of touch with developer mindset.

The Alexa is a good product and worth throwing a lot of money at.

Jeff should be doing whatever it takes to curate and maintain talent and show that customer focus extends as much to the development community as it does to my mother buying windex.

They really need to get serious about developer relations. It's not like they haven't had sufficient warnings, or the opportunity to do something about it.