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We are the drones.

I don't think the drone plan was ever a serious short term consideration for 99.999% of Amazon's business

> I don't think the drone plan was ever a serious short term consideration for 99.999% of Amazon's business

Right, but where would it be a serious short term consideration? Where's that .001%? If it's not in dense urban areas like Seattle and Chicago, I'm not sure where it would work, and those are the very areas where they're launching Flex.

> Right, but where would it be a serious short term consideration?

Public relations.

The drone thing is a ways off; this is akin to Uber hiring drivers while working on driverless cars. The sad thing is the majority of jobs I hear about in the exciting new sharing economy are drivers and delivery people -- unskilled jobs that skilled engineers are furiously working on eliminating.

Those delivery drones aren't happening unless there is a huge improvement in battery technology and there are a number of companies and labs working very hard on that problem, some for decades.