{"id":16950,"date":"2014-12-12T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:36:13","slug":"amazons-new-surprise-app-keeps-laziest-gift-shoppers-toes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/amazons-new-surprise-app-keeps-laziest-gift-shoppers-toes\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s New Surprise! App Keeps the Laziest Gift Shoppers on Their Toes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Amazon&#8217;s new Surprise! app needs to know something. Take a quick moment and evaluate whether any of these agree with you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You often receive passive aggressive text messages from family members &#8220;gently&#8221; reminding you that an anniversary, holiday or birthday is coming up.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;d rather just buy a gift card and get it over with, and you&#8217;re okay with getting gift cards in return.<\/li>\n<li>eCards are better than real cards, because trees.<\/li>\n<li>eCards are better than real cards, because animation.<\/li>\n<li>An eCard and a gift card are the peanut butter and jelly of the Internet.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon lives in your wallet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you nodded your head, then you&#8217;re in luck. Amazon will never let you forget to give somebody a gift. Ever again. The Surpise! app, just released on the app store currently sitting in your pocket or purse, does a number of things better than your brain. It keeps a calendar of gift-giving events, reminds you of those events and, finally, let&#8217;s you send an eCard packaged nice and tight with an Amazon gift card.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16964\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16964\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16964\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-1-1024x640.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The calendar in Amazon's iOS and Android Surprise! App.\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-1-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-1-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-1.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The calendar in Amazon&#8217;s iOS and Android Surprise! App.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16963\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16963\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16963\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-2-1024x640.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"eCards in Amazon's iOS and Android Surprise! App.\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-2-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-2-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-2.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">eCards in Amazon&#8217;s iOS and Android Surprise! App.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_16962\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16962\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16962\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-3-1024x640.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Customization in Amazon's iOS and Android Surprise! App.\" width=\"620\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-3-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-3-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/surprise-amazon-3.png 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Customization in Amazon&#8217;s iOS and Android Surprise! App.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/surprise!-by-amazon\/id863571614?mt=8\">iOS version<\/a> and here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.amazon.android.surprise\">Android version<\/a>. The eCards are fairly simple at the moment, albeit with a small dose of customization. Users can insert photos, videos, audio and text into the templates. If the app is a success, expect a much more robust version in the future. And coming from the laziest among them, this thing is going to be a hit.<\/p>\n<p>And for those who&#8217;ve long settled for the innocent shrug on those very special days, avert your eyes and make sure your parents never hear of this horrifying invention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s new Surprise! app needs to know something. Take a quick moment and evaluate whether any of these agree with you: You often receive passive aggressive text messages from family members &#8220;gently&#8221; reminding you that an anniversary, holiday or birthday is coming up. You&#8217;d rather just buy a gift card and get it over with, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":16964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[537,362,961,984,1187],"class_list":["post-16950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-amazon","tag-apps","tag-gift-card","tag-ios","tag-surprise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16950"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16970,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions\/16970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}