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by benbristow 265 days ago
All Amazon apps are buggy and broken. The Amazon shopping app is awful, a bunch of put together web pages hanging on for dear life.

Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.

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> optimise for sales and metrics

I take you have some insider knowledge... if the app is hanging for dear life, how is that helping optimize the sales pipeline?

It's a mess but the main flows just about function so it makes money.
I learned my lesson to not trust amazon after sagemaker, some of their core services are good and well done.
Curious about the sagemaker experience. What specifically was that broke?
> All Amazon apps are buggy and broken

Baseless conjecture.

> Amazon optimise for sales and metrics over anything else.

But healthy sales requires an app that works.