I've been saying for a long time—not that it stops me from using their services—that Amazon has too much power. It has its fingers in too many pies. Today that became glaringly obvious as one by one we discovered that things we take for granted are not working because Amazon failed. (And at this writing is still causing problems, despite premature assurances early this morning.)
A friend noted the lack of Wordle and Starbucks. I missed DuoLingo, GreatCoursesPlus, Hoopla, and of course Amazon itself—the last because without Hoopla I couldn't get to the book I'd borrowed and I thought, forget it, I'll just buy it for my Kindle and...oh, wait....
Fortunately, everything big that I needed today has so far been working. Including writing this post, because Lime Daley is not dependent on Amazon. May more companies discover that freedom!
Grades for half-semester courses here are do tomorrow and our whole system is down.
