The sign in flow is confusing... It says "Email address used for calendar meetings". So I input my work address, and it brings me to the "Login with Amazon" page where it says "If you are creating a new Chime account use the email address you use for scheduling your meetings rather than your existing shopping account.."
I wasn't using my shopping account, I was using my AWS account! Seems like a bug that they think my AWS account is a shopping account? I'm not sure == Confusing.
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@kalamyty Yeah, I really wasn't sure what to do here. Are we meant to create new Amazon accounts with our work emails? Decided to quit and use Hangouts instead. ;)
Man, I just wrote about how Amazon will become a Trillion $$$ company (https://medium.com/@kirillzubovs...) and that's an exciting future, but seeing apps like this also makes me scared for the future of startups. Amazon has amassed such power, they can out-execute and outrun anyone, and given that everything is stored on S3, it's only a matter of time. What do you guys think? How do you compete with a power giant that can copy any tool that they need?
@kirillzubovsky for startups, there is always room for innovation. Only difference is your startup has to be unique and disruptive enough to make it otherwise no hope for generic solutions, the big dogs are clearly more hungry.
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Chime - not to be confused with chyme.😬🤓🙃 -Amazon's new competitor to Google Hangouts sure promises a lot! If it's quality & stability holds up it will shake up the entire Internet!
As someone who curses FaceTime, Skype, Hangouts, Duo, BlueJeans, Zoom and Go-to-meeting on a regular basis...I'm glad Amazon is the one trying to solve this problem.
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Very cool Ryan. Thanks for hunting this. I'll give it a go.
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Looks amazing. Keep it up.
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It's not as good as skype or zoom and you need to have an AWS account to use it but they talking about "easy to join conversations"...seriously? 🤔
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Super awesome, if it works. Skype's been slowly dying for a while.
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Amazon conquers the online meetings market as well. Amazing. Skype for Business and other such providers seem to be sidelined by this. Nailed it Amazon.
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