Amazon will no longer sell Dash Button, these devices connected in WiFi and which allow to order a product simply by pressing a physical button. These latter will nevertheless continue to exist in a virtual version. These have become particularly useless with the popularization of Echo speakers that also make it easy to make purchases by voice. Current Dash button users will still be able to use their device (s).
Did you know the Dash buttons? These devices marketed by Amazon are kind of WiFi bells branded with the logo of a product. Press the button, and presto! the product in question is instantly ordered on Amazon. With the Dash Button it is possible to put a button next to toothbrushes, for example, to be able to order without thinking a new tube of toothpaste as soon as it is empty. The target of these connected objects was precisely consumer products for which users are reluctant to go shopping in stores.
The Dash Button was launched in 2015: at the time, connected objects were much less numerous than today. The Amazon Echo loudspeakers had just been launched - and their international success had yet to be demonstrated. The rather original idea of the Dash Button was then much more relevant in allowing to make purchases without going through his computer. But over the years the Dash Button have been "cannibalized" by the success of the connected speakers of the firm - which allow to make purchases with the voice - and the existence of virtual Dash Button (without physical button) with which one can interact on computer, smartphone, tablet as well as on connected Echo speakers.
Remains that it is surprising that they are deleted, while Amazon launched them in France less than a year ago. Those who already own Dash Buttons will still be able to use them: "Current Dash Button customers will be able to continue using their Dash Button devices. We look forward to continuing to support our customers' needs, which includes growing our Dash Replenishment product line and expanding the availability of virtual Dash Button, "the company said in a statement.
Amazon Announces the End of Dash Buttons
The Dash Button was launched in 2015: at the time, connected objects were much less numerous than today. The Amazon Echo loudspeakers had just been launched - and their international success had yet to be demonstrated. The rather original idea of the Dash Button was then much more relevant in allowing to make purchases without going through his computer. But over the years the Dash Button have been "cannibalized" by the success of the connected speakers of the firm - which allow to make purchases with the voice - and the existence of virtual Dash Button (without physical button) with which one can interact on computer, smartphone, tablet as well as on connected Echo speakers.
Remains that it is surprising that they are deleted, while Amazon launched them in France less than a year ago. Those who already own Dash Buttons will still be able to use them: "Current Dash Button customers will be able to continue using their Dash Button devices. We look forward to continuing to support our customers' needs, which includes growing our Dash Replenishment product line and expanding the availability of virtual Dash Button, "the company said in a statement.
