📱 New Phone, Who Dis?

📱 Amazon Considers $0 to $10 Mobile Phone Service for U.S. Prime Members

Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, and Boost Mobile owner Dish about launching a cheap or free mobile phone service for U.S. Prime members. A potential Prime unlimited phone plan could range from $0 to $10 per month for Amazon Prime members.

This would be yet another perk that could help Amazon boost Prime membership and differentiate the service from Walmart’s competing subscription plan, Walmart+.

Even at $10 a month, a Prime Wireless plan would represent real savings for most people. The average American pays $144 per month for their phone bill. So, a low-cost cellphone from Amazon could prove tempting.

Rapid Rundown

• 📱 Amazon is in talks with Verizon, T-Mobile, and Dish to offer cheap or free mobile service for Prime members.

• 💰 Prime Wireless plan could cost $0 to $10/month, attracting users and differentiating from Walmart+.

💡 Google’s SGE: A Revolutionary Search Experience or a Step Backwards?

Google’s new AI-powered search experience, Search Generative Experience (SGE), has one major flaw: loading animations. It’s not uncommon for users to have to sit through loading animations before the results finally show up.

And it’s not just the waiting that’s frustrating - SGE breaks down at weird times. Some top-searched terms like ‘YouTube’ and ‘Amazon’ return an error message, while others like ‘Facebook’ and ‘Netflix’ come back with perfectly fine SGE-formatted answers.

And when the results do finally show up, they’re often cluttered with extra stuff that’s not really helpful. With all these flaws, SGE just isn’t worth waiting for. Because why wait for an AI-generated summary filled with stuff you don’t want to sift through when you can just scroll down the page?

Rapid Rundown

• ⏳ Google's AI-powered search experience, SGE, has frustrating loading animations and errors for top searches.

• 🧐 Results are cluttered and not worth waiting for compared to scrolling down.

🏢 Amazon Workers Stage Walkout Over Return to Office

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently announced that remote workers should return to the office at least three days a week. This news crushed the dreams of employees who have enjoyed spending time with their families and avoiding dreadful commutes.

In response, employees protested and staged a walkout - which essentially means they got a day off work in the name of activism. One employee, Pamela Hayter, expressed her disappointment and emphasized the benefits of remote work during the protest.

Other bigwigs like Disney’s Bob Iger, Starbucks’ Howard Schultz, and News Corp’s Robert Thomson have also demanded the return to the office. Tesla CEO Elon Musk even deemed working from home “morally wrong.” The remote-work attitude may be shifting as Amazon is stubbornly sticking to its mandate while pretending to care about the employees’ well-being.

Rapid Rundown

• 🏢 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced remote workers should return to the office at least 3 days a week.

• 🚶‍♂️ Employees protested and staged a walkout in response.

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