Welcome to the Tech Meam Right Home for Tuesday, September 28th, 2021.

I'm Brian McCullough today, as many headlines from the Amazon Hardware

event as I can manage to squeeze in.

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Cloudflare wants to be the fourth big player in the cloud,

and Satcha Nadella himself dishes onhes on that time, Microsoft almost bought Tic-Toc.

His words, the quote, strangest thing I've ever sort of worked on.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. So the big Amazon Hardware event was today at lunchtime and I've got to

be honest with you this is the hardest event for me to cover in this format. It doesn't help that

Amazon refuses to stream it. They also at least this year did not give me an

invite or any embargoed information, but also, they literally announce like 30 different things

at these things.

So the best I can do for you right now

is just put my face in front of the fire hose

and try to tell you what got announced,

and then if things really

resonate or call for extra analysis perhaps we can get to that tomorrow.

If this feels disjointed or lacking a narrative thread againhose, I'm doing my best. First up, Amazon

announced a $60 smart thermostat in partnership with Honeywell, with

pre-orders starting today. very competitive price for a smart

thermostat, obviously going after Nest, obviously with deep Alexa integration

as you might expect. Amazon is also partnering with Disney, with a hey Disney service that sits on echo

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