Amazon Silk—Amazon's Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser

[GglSux]

Congratz...you have managed to copy the concept behind Opera mini, ....

And Opera mini was launched 7 Years ago, and is still in use...ON Mobiles, Wow, that was great thinking of You guys, Quite an "innovation" NOT !!!

Silk might be a good browser (or not) but for these ppl to claim that they came up with the "split browser concept" is in my view nothing short of intellectual dishonesty...

We have ...bla bla...psht no shame

[numcrun]

That bearded guy seemed kinda nervous

[1stCondi]

Cool Google videos imitation FAIL

[TheTeevo8]

What is the value? Cloud this, cloud that. This cloud thing has been tossed around for 10+ years. Yes, it's kinda convenient, but not enough to pay $ for it. I work for a Fortune 100 company myself and between family, friends, and coworkers, I don't know of anyone talking about cloud. It's not on people's or enterprise radar. The market is currently too small.

[taylordmarean]

@TheTeevo8 You clearly don't work in the tech field

[arielmonaco77]

an online bookstore trying very hard to be google

[harleykman]

OPERA and Opera Mini for cellphones/tablets, with its Turbo function, does the same thing

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And it's been doing it for almost 10 years now

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All amazon did was copy what Opera engineers were already doing. Amazon did not invent anything new

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[sevenmilejumbo]

RIPOFF FROM ONLIVE'S WEB BROWSER!!!!

[godkilleroswin]

dangerously close to calling the internet a series of tubes

[Xaneild]

Without music it's awkward. 

[a7mad164u]

the guy with a beard is killing me .. what is he soo afraid of??

[rocklikethis93]

@LightBrightsz hmmm something like an ANDROID xD haha

[SkylineTL]

Revolutionary Slow

[tophorius]

wow, whoever the animator was trolled at 2:46...  1337

[metro222]

I have heard people on stocktwits complaining that the Kindle is nice but the browser is really really slow compared to Ipad

[jared123978]

i just got the fire and i think the browser is super fast. I glad i got this thing

[chazzyMooMoo]

I just got the Fire, but I haven't seen any speed difference yet, it fact, it's still a hell of a lot slower browsing than my Ipad 1 or 2! Maybe I need to give it time for more people to browse on the silk network. I hope it improves over time.....

[Finne116]

Security is an issue. But if you don't like it and you have a much more brilliant idea, go invent something better and quit complaining! Right now, this is where cloud computing is at. It's the fastest web browsing option for tablets, with the highest quality. I can't complain! I plan on getting a Kindle Fire :)

[samintune14]

the guy who speaks at 2:00 looks scared as fuck

[HelloGreetingsHi]

add music, make a white background, and you got an apple ad :D

[MissGreeneTee]

Seems cool; considering pre-ordering. But, I too am, unsure. I think the cloud will be a target for hackers/predators; there will be a extensive amount of Intel in one location. Idk, I'm sure they considered all of the variables. Just saying.

[LightBrightSZ]

It seems like everyone is just copying apple to an EXTENT lol. No wonder Steve jobs was grumpy all the time, from the days of macintosh to now everyone just waits for them to spend years of R&D and launch (all the risky stuff) then whatever's successful boom copy, even down to looks (cough Samsung) & dare I say it business model, Google just copies everyone, trying to monopolise by stealing idea's...man the tech world is a bitch.

I use windows so not being biased ok, just telling the truth

[tkchrist]

100 MILLISECONDS! NOT THAT!

Seriously. How spoiled have we become by technology that we measure impatience in milliseconds now?

Has anybody ever stopped to consider that you can live like a Maharaja - with any sort of thing you want at your literal finger tips. Actually better than Kings and Sultans of times past. We have indoor plumbing. But if it takes longer than 100 milliseconds. OFF WITH THIER HEADS!

[Ishmum123456]

and what's next? the eBay cotton

[JakeTheFakeReal]

@Ishmum123456 The Google Denim.

[j00mi]

Hm I'm not sure. Seems that the ec2 is your proxy with some UA depending postprocessing stuff + cache. This isn't really new. I would like to see an technical report about amazonsilk. And not like this video a bunch of people who speak about how innovative they are and how much they like the project. If I want to hear such things I would listen to the apple keynote conference.

[arielmonaco77]

@j00mi I think you're right, they're just making a big fuss about it when in the end all they're talking about is a cache system...

[Wartooth82]

"You can also choose to operate Amazon Silk in basic or “off-cloud” mode. Off-cloud mode allows web pages generally to go directly to your computer rather than pass through our servers. As such, it does not take advantage of Amazon’s cloud computing services to speed-up web content delivery." -AMAZON SILK TERMS & CONDITIONS

[Wartooth82]

Yes, Opera did cloud backed web browsing first but Amazon actually owns the back end cloud servers that will power Amazon Silk.

I don't know a whole lot about opera. Is Opera mainly a mobile web browser and are all versions of Opera cloud backed?

[xmorg]

nothing revolutionary about this. you are trading a few alleged miliseconds of "speed" for any semblance of privacy you have left on the internet. furthermore, cloud computing is like a reverting back to the days of dumb terminals, instead of moving on to the freedom and feeling of personal ownership that you get from a PC. instead we have tablets that should be the next gen, pc, where everything on it is NOT yours.

[Jrf2112ROBLOXStyle]

This video is a lot like a google video.

T_T



[IILydia783]

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[AndyMak56]

Amazon silk=uZard P

[H2Joye804]

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[FozIrenics]

so... it's another web proxy?

[Kenguy22]

lol 65 GB of RAM and 8 cores on their servers. I wouldn't mind a fourth of one of those :S

[akbisw]

ya but silk sounds cooler

[timerickson2482]

I read all of this on the Kindle Fire Forums at KFHUB.com

[Hippoman141]

2 words: Google Chrome.

[209beast209]

amazon way to completely copy apples way of presenting things.

[l0lMastah]

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[alphakristjan]

I cant help wondering if this is just a evil plan for spying on people...i mean one of the guys speaking had a goatee..

[SirMux]

1337ms, that was totally intentional.

[CamaraMountClamp]

Thats Cool

[k11u]

These poor nerds look like they have a gun to their heads.

[luzi29]

I really see the advantages of this approach for say web applications... they would be enormous... (i am not a tech expert) but... ahhm when i think about my private browsing habits i am not totally sure if i want amazon or any other company to watch my each and every move... isn't there a really huge privacy issue here?

[Wartooth82]

@luzi29 Every move you do online can already be seen by your isp. I'm not 100% clear on what Silk actually does but it might just be that it's cloud ec2 (or w/e) severs only act as a proxy for your content in order to speed it up. They do mention that the silk is able to learn web searching patterns and is able to pre-load content before you actually need it but that could just mean that it learns overall user habits.

Who knows maybe we will be able to turn off that feature completely.

[stephenmac6]

@Wartooth82 See: htt ps://ww w.eff.or g/2011/october/amazon-fire%E2%­80%99s-new-browser-puts-spotli­ght-privacy-trade-offs (get rid of spaces)

[VideoGameResearcher]

@luzi29 Arent you already doing that just from the fact you're running andriod?

[FurkanKhan100]

not to be rude..but the guy at 2:15 sounds like he has a stick up his ass

[ecchibear]

err, this is already been done -_-'

[bnatbox]

This is INOVATION

[ttcfcl]

Watch, 90% of cached content will be redtube.

[tjh111tjh]

Jon Jenkins = McLovin

[GrammarNaziify]

@WhoWillSaveTheSane hahaha omg!! Leave tablets to apple?? Have you seen an apple tablet? It's just icons!! And more icons! Pages of icons!! What is this 2008? Icons for homescreens is so 5 years ago, you apple fanboys need to catch up with the times. You could literally take 2 different ipads and switch them and youd never know the difference because they all look exactly the same, kind of like apple fanboys personalities.  Youve seen one, youve seen em all.

[dmishe1]

@GrammarNaziify so you need fancy screen, not fancy apps. Typical droid

[GrammarNaziify]

@dmishe1 ROFL! Are you serious? The apple app store sucks. Quality over quantity my friend. Android apps are about 10 times better than the apple counterpart and most of the time free. You've clearly never been near an android in your life.

[bizwiz21]

That last post is so funny, I signed on to comment on the back end/ fat pipe syndrome as well.

[faderfab]

Our backend has the fattest pipes! Nice....

[CamaraMountClamp]

That is AWEsOmE

[GuidelineForYou]

like it....

[sk84starz]

Hahah just joking this seems pretty cool... anyone know what it looks like on the kindle?

[sk84starz]

Screw this... Google Chrome!!

[Zprincess01]

like it but liked it better when wilson tech 1 did his review. more entertaining for tech-challenged people like me.... After his review l had to get one....

[Timothy17Fan]

Silk=Spyware

[EpicHotCheese]

Everyone in this video looked like they are being forced to appear in front of the camera, looks like a gun is pointed at them...

[toddseiler]

I want this for my desktop and iPhone... I want it right now.. gimme.

[RyanIchiban]

so you're going to store everyones' browsing info on your server? I see privacy bitching in your future. Good luck.

[jesusantana]

What happens when it starts to Rain????

[jesusantana]

wow .. have they heard about ... background music?? that tends to help with their faces ... tv commercials use it for a reason :S

[LeagueOfNations94]

Does the browser support flash?

[deztructicus]

@LeagueOfNations94 fuck flash, html5 and javascript ftmfw!

[webDes33]

@deztructicus fuck flash? steve jobs is retired now let it go! Flash is awsome! FP11 + unity engine, Javascript, Html5 & WebGL ftw!! Html5 still takes up cpu and is buggy as hell!

[kawohidev]

@webDes33 > still takes up cpu and is buggy as hell" oh we're not talking about Minecraft? :D

[Involvement82]

I wonder who is drawing all those pictures in the background while they are talking cause they can draw really fast

[VegasMarcMarc]

Yea but Microsoft has pretty boxes and big letters .. have you seen how big those letters are? .. I'm talking the biggest letters on any phone.

[guitarguru102]

Yep, this is Opera Turbo... which was introduced at the beginning of 2009. Poor Opera... always innovating and never going "big", ha. Just getting copied.

[SuperJew2D2]

I'm excited about this. It's been a while since an extremely innovative browser came out (Chrome is a nice, clean browser, but doesn't implement any radically new concepts). I think people were becoming too content with the same technologies.

[MrMultiplayer617]

My iphone is still faster than that browser. lol. In fact, it takes a second to load webpages. They are talkin about all the other slow phones and tablets out there. Iphone 5 here we come!!!

[1yakko1]

Are you trying to tell me apple didn't design this?? :L lol

[therichtv]

could you imagine watching porn on this thing???!!!! spank spank away!!

[pfzx3]

Whether or not this is ground breaking, it makes sense to me, as speed is an issue for users today. When you add the wireless system lag, they are addressing what many might be thinking - that a cheap device cannot work as well as an expensive device.

[syno86]

amazon silk = opera mini, repackaged

[jonlamendola]

@syno86 Amazon silk = opera mini that doesn't blow

[MayMast]

2 things here...

1.) Do you really fucking mind if a webpage takes 1.5 seconds to load ? Cause then this product is targeting some serious maniacs. I am a senior sw developer and I do some frenzy multitasking and I objectively acknowledge I suffer from impatience, but optimizing something that takes 1.5 s to a 0.5 ,pffff what for ??? Who gives a fuck ?

2.) If everything is getting bridged through Amazon's infrastructure,the classical ethical question arises. What about privacy ?

[pAULMosckera]

Even the way to present the product of apple become a trend....

[pAULMosckera]

Even the way to present the product of apple become a trend....

[ogzot]

Thumbs up if you know that Opera has been doing this for years now. So, revolutionary, Amazon? Not really! Respect the original ideas!

[lazyslackerboy]

Winning....

[davidsotojr1993]

This is lame. The iPad out does this in every way! Every fuckin way! No comparison

[MichandOli]

@davidsotojr1993 Lol, i'm really gonna laugh hard if i see your irl. IPAD DOESNT OWN THE TABLET MARKET: Omg you baby. Tablets exist for years! When the iPad came out it was Revolutionair!

[Aoflmagic]

@davidsotojr1993 no it doesn't...

[Vidman313]

@davidsotojr1993 Does your iPad's browser work with the cloud? Does it compute your browsing in an intelligent, and efficient matter? No? Well that sucks, cause the Amazon Kindle Fire owns the iPad browsing wise.

[HairyPotter2012]

@Vidman313 yes, Kindle Fire is the new iPad killer or probably it will be renamed to Kindle Backfired.

[usrSanthosh]

First thing that pops up my mind is isn't this is something Opera doing it for years! Opera shld be the most unfortunate company in the world! they brought tabs and many features copied by others but never credited worse it was talked like new thing just invented by some awesome geeks like here!

p.s. I don't use Opera, I never liked it! Firefox is my choice. But fact is fact!

[pudepude]

@usrSanthosh True this is what Opera has been doing since 2005 with their Opera Mini browser

[Cmerdle]

Is it just me, or does this video look a lot like the video that introduced Google Chrome?

[abdulrsno1]

put some background music and it looks like apple's ipad and iphone ads

[twebb72]

why do are these asses talk like they're somehow redefining distributed applications? this video is nothing but buzzword bingo

[Xcelerate2]

Lol @ 2:46 1337 ms

[luniarxox]

this is gonna bust piracy.

[donyunger]

@luniarxox How? Those involved with piracy. or borderline internet activity will not be using this browser

[sandeshpaudel]

Thumbs up if you are gonna use opera mini/ opera mobile for android tablets on this!

[sandeshpaudel]

I remember a time when amazon only used to be about buying books, when Google was just a search engine, when Microsoft and apple only focused on making computers. Now look at them; they got kindle, video/music on demand, online game downloads, google chrome fuckbook, chrome, android, tablets, smartphones, webbrowsers, ipods, ipads, iphones, zune, windows phone7... But they got kindle fire for only 199. so i cant really complain, now can i?

[TheTomGraber]

This is brilliant and revolutionary. This impacts not only how browsers will be built for mobile, but it also tackles cloud access which is very powerful and seamless. Split browser functionality is an elegant, robust solution.

[pudepude]

@TheTomGraber Wouldn't call it revolutionary as Opera has been doing this since 2005. But Amazon might be better to carry it out.

[TheTomGraber]

@pudepude You are correctly on Opera. However, the Amazon cloud storage is nothing short of amazing as a CDN. The direct connection to to the S3 cloud is something only Amazon can pull off. I see your point...

[evanpg]

watch 2:45 it takes 1337ms to load :D

[obi6371]

Hahaha these guys are much more dorky than the guys in the apple videos

[Odin412z]

Excellent! I can't wait to get my hands on the Kindle Fire.

[threefer222]

5:03  Perfect!

[TheJebalo]

3:09 heyyy dumbo

[chancy319]

Oh, blah...blah...blah. They're acting like they just created a human being or made water out of thin air. It's not that technically advanced. Get over yourselves, Amazon.

[BigRouch]

His "back-end has a fat pipe"? Wow.

[ThePolytic]

is this suppose to sell me on something?...stop, i feel it a singularity away.

[HandyRandyYT]

I can't believe they linked to this on their home page and didn't warn people that it was very technical and hard to follow. Apple would never do such a thing. This video should have never been made and they should have just summed it up in a few lines of text that I could actually understand.

[pudepude]

@HandyRandyYT  :- D

[grg2tube]

isnt this the way RIM operates ? :-/

[hellonearthisman]

Silk, great bondage tool as it doesn't cut up the skin like rope. Amazon silk your tided to there resources.

[hellonearthisman]

OMG they say oh we save you data, but they also pre-fetch pages you may not even view. Guys you can have it both ways and Opera has been doing it for years, without wasting bandwidth on pre-fetching pages you may not view.

[hellonearthisman]

What rubbish.15 - 20 years, gosh, chrome does it differently compared to 20 year old browsers and they TOTALLY ignore Opera which has been doing the so called cloud caching, which they have been doing for years!!!!! These guys are stupid.

[prashant1207]

May be a desktop version will be easier to evaluate the whole 2 Tier browser concept.

[ichigomashi]

Opera Mini?

[papissoccer]

nice

[thegoodboy]

they spent 5 minutes trying to tell us that they are building a browser based on cloud technology?

[upload4free]

copying apple but shitty quality. who are they Microsoft?

[JesseBochekTV]

@upload4free

Except they're not charging up the ass for something.....they're trying to give a inexpensive solution that may inspire others to make something cheap. Competition is good.

[robcoh]

Never let an engineer anywhere near the customers.

[humblyrequest]

I asked out Olivia Wilde! /watch?v=woEuM5BlCnw

[rtx911]

Kindle fire already on sale @kindlfiresale

[SexCyberGuideCom]

good

[xXgamerNanimeloverXx]

lol

[MrMoodyKSA]

hey guys rate my channel :)

[harleyskater]

something is missing here... not hyped

[lifeisnotabutton]

demo pls?

[titanscorpio1]

Why do the people in this video look like they're about to cry?

[Duyfat]

@titanscorpio1 too much of work stress from Amazone asking them to do too difficult programming tasks :))

[newintowncable]

@titanscorpio1 they high men

[Erde04]

@titanscorpio1 Cause they know Silk is complete crap but amazon has a gun pointed at them and if they don't say there lines perfectly well...

[sc6rp]

@titanscorpio1 for them its like witnessing the birth of their first child

[stevesanterre]

@titanscorpio1 They fear you may find out this browser is actually like the other browsers.. 

[xman71000]

@titanscorpio1 because they read too many emotional books with their kindle!!! XD

[azcomicgeek]

@titanscorpio1 Because its painful to dumb down this stuff for the mass market and marketing.

[IfIRise]

@titanscorpio1 It's probably tears of joy for all the money they're going to make.

[webDes33]

die apple $600 thingY!! >:D

[Films4You]

@titanscorpio1 They about to be sacked

[Carmiquez]

@titanscorpio1 Its... just.... so... inspiring!

[DraconicFury]

@Snazzy22x you must have a VERY exciting life and I envy you.

[ignitoman]

this silk browser sounds like a good start. i cant wait to see a 3g version as that is where it will allow more usage than before unless you have unlimited browsing though tmobile.