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> Echo Dot ($89.99) is available exclusively for Prime Members through Alexa Voice Shopping. Huh? Why would they prevent new customers from ordering this?
by tlrobinson 11y ago
> Echo Dot ($89.99) is available exclusively for Prime Members through Alexa Voice Shopping.
Huh? Why would they prevent new customers from ordering this?
- BooneJS 11y agoI presume because they've had trouble keeping the original Echo in stock. And they want Prime members more than Echo Dot owners.
- tlrobinson 11y agoIt's not just Prime, you need one of the other Alexa products to order it.
- mjmj 11y ago>> you need one of the other Alexa products to order it. It likely that DOT uses the Echo as a parent device to do all processing of things like sending the voice requests to the servers and back and the DOT just works as a microphone slave device with some basic synchronization to determine which device heard the wakeword first. If DOT hears it first it sends the voice data to Echo and Echo does it's normal thing and sends the response back to DOT. (At least that was the intent when I worked on early versions of the project.)
- tlrobinson 11y agoThe product page doesn't mention Echo as a requirement, AFAICT.