Amazon Cloud Drives Into a Ditch

I saw that Amazon now has this new cloud drive service and has a Photos & Videos application as well.  So I am thinking that this might be a useful way to organize photos between devices, How cool!!!.  Amazon did a decent job with their Kindle application, so I am sure they'll do a great job with this service... NOT!!

For Mac OS X, Amazon has you download a synchronization application.  That's reasonable I would think.  But the application is essentially a web application plastered in a dialog box — essentially a window that cannot be resized.

THE USER EXPERIENCE (UX DESIGN)

The embedded web application's borders extend beyond the dimensions of the dialog box, so buttons and other widgets are chopped off.  When I first launched it, it offered to upload some folders, like photos, music, and so on.

But I don't want this.  I may have private photos or other files and in the case of music, I have gigabytes of music that would take untold hours to upload.  I unselected everything and hit enter, and then the application continue to upload files form my home directory, some of them not even data files, but resource files within Mac OS X bundles.

I canceled out of this, and afterward, the program would not even launch.  I am guessing it is crashing in ball of flame somewhere.  This is the User eXperience that Amazon wants for its customers?   What an embarrassment?

RANTING...

"When I was a young whippersnapper..." (in grandpa voice) applications never made it out of the Alpha quality gate if they had zero functionality... I cannot imagine anyone putting this out in the public... as their final version... their final cut... I pile of flaming poo 💩 💩 💩... that they give to the public... wow... 

Holy Bad-Application, Batman.