Amazon Chime - Frustration-free video calls. Amazon's Skype competitor.

@nivo0o0 dead.

@nivo0o0 Amazon is so nailing the frustrations of conference calls with distributed teams in meeting-centric corporate cultures with the video above...i take my life into my own hands everytime i have to punch in a conference call code on the road. Love the positioning.

@aaronsuplizio @nivo0o0 Actually not really, I suspect they stole the idea from these guys: https://www.uberconference.com [see video] and that video is even more demonstrative of typical issues..

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@benln I wonder what % of workforce in that total employment figure is fulfillment/blue collar vs highly-skilled labor/engineering. Latter is probably comparable to GOOG & MSFT. Still though, they are everywhere and AWS continues to fuel their investment.

@rrhoover Alexa needs a face

@hadifarnoud 🤖

@jimmydouglas Haha I waited until someone would see the actual purpose of this :D

@rasmus1610 😄

@hkhalidz Wait, you can't believe Amazon doesn't care about UX?

@hkhalidz Yeah! There are too many sub-windows and popups. The "Running late" feature is nifty though.

@austinstorm Believing a company cares about something is totally different from delivering a great user experience. The current UX for Chime feels as if it was designed by a machine not human. There's too many moving parts and the user journey is not straight forward. It too me a few minutes just to signup for the tool. Mind you, I am a technical person. How long do you think it would take a nontechnical person to use this? Now, does that mean Amazon is a bad company when it comes to UX, no not at all. In fact, Amazon has released some great products over the years. But this one is not one of them.

@billey_b it says 100 on the website. But it's limited to just 2 people for both Basic and Plus plans, which I find odd.

@billey_b ?? "Video meetings for up to 100 people"

@timmywahba Multi device screen sharing is where I'm excited... but I tried it and was underwhelmed. Especially the part about not being available via mobile app.

@nassaraf @timmywahba "You can also allow remote control of a screen share for richer collaboration." →Pretty sick! -It's almost like Amazon combined everything everyone loves about Rabbit, Google Hangouts, Skype, Zoom, etc.,

@thatadamguy Absolutely! We'd all be stuck in some distant era of innovation without competition.

@thatadamguy How can you be happy with Google Hangout as a serious business solution? :/ yes, I get you have drunk the cool-aid ;) lol

@thatadamguy If you are with Google, you sound like the person I need to talk to. Hangouts used to be great 3 years ago, but it seems like Google just forgot about it. We have been using Hangouts on Air to record our podcast over that time. The updates are weak, and they are stripping away useful features, like sound effects, in April. You have to search hard to find out where to start an Hangout on Air on YouTube now. We switched to Blab because we were fed up with GHO, then they shut down with almost no warning. I would love a video service that can record your chat, is easy for people to join, and has reliability. I work in education, and teachers need a simple solution to deliver professional development. I am on the lookout for any new tool that can do this.

@jonsamuelson :\ sorry for the frustration on multiple fronts! I don't work on anything Hangouts related at Google (I'm on the Travel Products team, the group trying to get the world to meet face to face :p), but I'm optimistic about the future of Google Hangouts'y stuff and will keep my fingers crossed that you and others will be delighted :).

@emmanuel_lemor Links to the mobile apps are up and downloads are working on both iOS and Android.

@francisco_ramos Thanks Francisco, hummm but you still can't find the App, in the App Store if you type: Amazon Chime, fyi.

@emmanuel_lemor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca...

@emmanuel_lemor @francisco_ramos That is maybe because some geo restrictions. "Amazon Chime" worked for me