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Ding, dong, the Dash is dead https://ift.tt/2SBnHhi It’s been said before that for all their intelligence to enable you to play music, control smart home devices, and alert you when someone breaks into your home, that Amazon’s Echo smart speakers are essentially a Dash button with speakers. Well, I guess Echo is just an intelligent speaker now, as Amazon announced today that it will indefinitely discontinue Dash buttons sales globally. Dash buttons were first made available in 2015 as a way to help people reorder important items they most often use in their homes for things like paper towels, laundry detergent, and energy bars. Dash buttons costing $5 were made available from more than 150 brands like Tide, Clif Bar, and Campbell’s Soup. Since then, a number of devices and services from Amazon have increasingly made the Dash button obsolete, including the Echo Wand, which can scan the barcodes of devices you want to reorder, and Alexa, which can either help users do shopping research or remember the kind of toilet paper or trash bags or snacks you like best. Last year, virtual Dash buttons were introduced for third-parties to make their own Dash buttons for devices with screens. Dash Replenishment, a service that makes smart home devices like Brita water filters and Whirlpool washing machines automatically orders new supplies, was also introduced last year and now supports reorders for hundreds of products, a company spokesperson said in a statement shared with VentureBeat. Existing Dash buttons will continue to work for people out there who are die hard Dash fans. For people who like the simplicity of pressing a button to complete reorders, virtual dash buttons will also continue to work on devices like Amazon’s Echo Show. Business via VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com February 28, 2019 at 05:31PM
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