I did not intend to be defensive of Amazon or Echo. If I gave you the wrong impression, I apologize. I'm fairly neutral when it comes to that. I was stating what I thought to be correct, although it was only my opinion.
I also apologise if I jumped to conclusions about you.
At one time I also wanted to jailbreak my iPhone because there was a certain app that I wanted to run. But I decided against it due to the problems that may arise later on. When I was on Android, every Android device I owned was rooted. I had good reason for it because there were legitimate things I wanted to do that the stock Android did not allow.
Jailbreaking is certainly something that shouldn't be done on a whim. With that being said, it should be possible for somebody who has jailbroken their iPhone or iPad to upgrade the OS or even remove traces that it was even jailbroken in the first place. The problem is that doing so will undo anything you had previously installed from rooting. Since I've had a much better iPhone experience from doing this I hope you can understand that taking that action just because one control panel isn't loading nearly at all and might not even work after the upgrade is something I'm hesitant about.
Previously I was an Android user but as I got my iPhone free for my software development work I've been using it ever since. This is just unfortunate and I'd like to know from others who face this issue their version of iOS, or even if they're getting it with an Android device.
Anyway, I did check on the IOS Alexa app and found out that Amazon states it supports IOS 8+. Since you are running IOS 8.4, there should be no problems. So there must be something else that's causing it to run slowly.
You're right that it does say this in their documentation. I'll try getting through to Amazon's technical teams (not an easy thing despite them having good customer service overall) and tell them my findings (including mentioning others who face the same problem), also asking if they have any possible workarounds of their own.
To clarify my question for you, I asked why do you use the browser instead of the Alexa app on the phone?
I must have said at least three times that the app is just a wrapper and loads the page through Safari, but is presented as an app. The reason why going to the site through the browser tells you to download the app is because (I believe at least) it detects the user agent of the browser, which then directs you to the app store to get the app. The app uses a different user agent so it is able to bypass that. However, if you're able to change your user agent (probably restricted to jailbroken users) you'll find that the browser and app are exactly the same. So it's a bit of a moot question really.
Though, if you were talking about Puffin, this again brings us to the user agent point. Puffin is designed to be like a desktop browser on your phone. (One of its best features is that it runs Flash too.) Therefore it could load the Alexa site as the desktop version or you can change it to pretend to be any other mobile browser. In any case, Puffin works.
Nobody is defending Amazon; it's just that you are being such a PITA that you are right and others (including Amazon) are wrong.
That's just your interpretation. How could I logically disprove someone when I've never been provided with an alternative solution anyway? I do appreciate replies to my posts but I haven't been given any surefire solutions to work from, other than jwlv's suggestion to upgrade based on my own suggestion that it might be due to an old iOS version. It seems he acknowledges that my theory about this being version-related might not be conclusive and if it isn't, upgrading might not solve this at all. Amazon might be able to clear this up so I'll try to get through to them when I have the chance.
And, since we are on acronyms for expressions again, I never told you to RTFM, although I have told some others being insistive PITAs, for sure; here, and elsewhere.
Everybody is a PITA to a cynic.
Suggestion: why not get a refund for your new Echo device? Amazon is real good about returns.
Why would I do that with a device I otherwise love? I do agree about Amazon being good though. I've ordered from them for over a decade, placing hundreds of orders. I have a better idea though. Before saying something that would lower myself to your level, it's probably better to simply forget that you exist. I think everyone here would be better off if they followed suit. So... activate.
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