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And yet everyone cites Amazon as the gold standard. Have you tried to use their disconnected, inconsistent, terrible user interfaces? It's like you're talking to a completely different company switching between departments of the same store.



"Get this item tomorrow and without shipping costs when you join Prime! Free for 1 year! Click this big button to join Prime! Or click this tiny link to go to the 'Are you sure you don't want Prime?' page interrupting your checkout process!"


A while ago I started getting advertisements for Prime for Students interrupting every checkout. I graduated nearly a decade ago. Though I did recently start grad school and I did in fact sign up for Prime so maybe Amazon knew before I did.


The thing is that Amazon is emphatically not a small business. Amazon's customers are a pretty captive audience, and have to put up with what they got.

Same with other giants / monopolies; this is why monopolies are bad for customers.


You'd say that, but the competition is worse. I put up with Amazon's issues because the competition, well, they don't quite compete.


True, but they're miles ahead of the "competition", thus they are the gold standard.


I've never heard anyone cite Amazon as the gold standard of user interfaces.




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