For a company that can touch every aspect of our daily lives, Amazon is surprisingly bad at its primary job: running a website that sells stuff
So there I am last week, five minutes into my adult community concert band rehearsal, and my bassoon seat strap BREAKS. Ughhhhh. Tweets: @katienotopoulos , @shiraovide , @alexhern , @jeffspross , and @mat Tweets: Katie Notopoulos / @katienotopoulos : Have you ever shopped on Amazon and realized.... wait, this website is literally a fucking mess? Like, Amazon is the biggest geniusest behemoth and yet the core business is just totally janky? http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Shira Ovide / @shiraovide : Yes. I honestly can't believe it every single time. http://twitter.com/... Jongo Dorts / @alexhern : Amazon is a klutzy commerce site, Google a mediocre search engine, Facebook a terrible way of staying in contact with friends... the tech giants are just kinda bad at their core competencies http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Jeff Spross / @jeffspross : It's almost like Amazon's main innovations were arbitraging state sales tax policy and undercutting competitors with a platform monopoly. http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Mat Honan / @mat : .@katienotopoulos: the most originalister thinker of the internet era:http://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...