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Thu. 02/28 - Make Any Day Amazon Day

Tech Brew Ride Home

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Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Amazon Day gives you the ability to schedule your Prime Deliveries, Motorola teases more details about the foldable resurrection of the Razr phone, the state of the smartwatch market, and seemingly every messaging platform might soon have a crypto coin. Sponsors: Tiny.Website DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Links: Amazon Prime members can choose a weekly delivery date with launch of 'Amazon Day' (TechCrunch) Motorola confirms its foldable phone is coming (Engadget) Apple self-driving car layoffs hit 190 employees in Santa Clara, Sunnyvale (San Francisco Chronicle) Apple shipped 9.2M Apple Watch units in Q4 2018 to capture half of market, report says (AppleInsider) Uber and Lyft drivers will reportedly get stock in the highly anticipated IPOs (CNBC) Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed (NYTimes) Mozilla updates Common Voice dataset with 1,400 hours of speech across 18 languages (Venture Beat) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, February 28th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:10.0

Amazon Day gives you the ability to schedule your prime deliveries.

0:13.6

Motorola teases more details about the foldable resurrection of the razor phone.

0:17.8

The state of the smartwatch market and seemingly every messaging platform

0:21.9

might soon have a crypto coin. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:29.4

File this one in the I can't believe they didn't already do this category but has this ever

0:34.5

happened to you you want to order something from Amazon but you make yourself wait

0:39.2

in order to have the delivery come on a certain day maybe so you know you'll be home to have the delivery come on a certain day.

0:43.5

Maybe so you know you'll be home to take delivery of it or you know you'll need the item at a

0:47.0

specific time so you wait to order until the two-day shipping window lines up the way

0:51.8

you want.

0:53.2

Well, that will no longer be an issue,

0:55.4

as Amazon has launched Amazon Day, a new delivery option,

0:59.9

allowing Prime Members to pick a specific day of the week

1:02.2

to take delivery of all recent orders.

1:05.0

This would also allow you to group all of your orders into one delivery so you're not answering

1:09.3

the doorbell every day for days in a row.

1:12.4

You can now pick a day and make it say Amazon

1:15.9

delivery day Tuesday if you want quoting tech crunch. The move clearly benefits

1:20.6

Amazon by reducing the number of deliveries drivers have to make to the same address

1:24.7

while positioning the option as a new prime perk. However, there are other benefits to grouping shipments

1:30.4

like this. For example, if you live in an area where a package theft is a concern,

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