Army of Low Paid Workers Help You Buy Stuff You Don’t Need with Amazon iPhone App
Amazon has a new iPhone app in the wild. It’s interesting because it lets you take a photograph of something and then it tries to find a product on Amazon.com for you to buy. At first I thought it was some incredible algorithmic photo processing awesomeness like SnapTell.
Upon looking into it I discovered it’s just a front end to their Mechanical Turk system. You get results in 5 minutes to 24 hours. Of course this is not even close to fast enough.
It’s a free download in the app store.
I heard it’s suppose to let you buy over your phone, but with that kind of delay it doesn’t sound so cool anymore. Not like I would be able to unless in a wifi spot. hehe. Data plans are overpriced. Who’s with me on that one.
Yes the main function of the app is to let you buy stuff from amazon. I was just interested in the mechanical turk element…