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1. galact+(OP)[view] [source] 2016-01-11 02:51:48
The weird thing about the title change is that the new one isn't even true - they've been running the Kindle app store for quite a while...

The user "dang" posted further down in the comments saying that he changed it because the title was "over the top", which didn't seem like a good reason to me (but then again, I'm not a moderator). I can understand the desire to avoid sensationalism, especially if the belief is that this anger over third party Alexa skills is only about the problem in the article. In reality, though, this is just one of many issues that currently has the community up in arms, so I don't think the original title was as hyperbolic as they believed...

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2. justin+m1[view] [source] 2016-01-11 03:15:58
>>galact+(OP)
Agree, they have been at it for about 5 years, since March, 2011 according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Appstore

To whoever changed the title of this: I hope Amazon is paying you a lot of money (under the theory that it's somehow better to be willfully corrupt than just stupid).

3. overga+m3[view] [source] 2016-01-11 03:56:22
>>galact+(OP)
Yeah, they definitely changed the title to be less accurate. This new title is not only objectively worse, but pretty fucking cringeworthy in supplying an excuse to the company for no apparent reason. (And not even a true excuse!) Amazon can't stick up for themselves? The funny thing is that it's not like the original title is "sensationalist". Criticism is not the same thing as sensationalism.
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