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Even if true, not sure why you wrote such a snarky comment. This obviously is a side project of the author and just serves as an inspiration, it's not like he i

• AnkhMorporkian 11y ago
  I think it's probably because the headline called it a clone, which sort of implies 1:1 feature parity. It's neat, but it's not a clone.
  • givinguflac 11y ago
    There are plenty of "iPhone clones" that don't come close to feature parity, so it seems a bit picky.
  • dumbguy 11y ago
    Pedantic stupidity.
    • MawNicker 11y ago
      No. Wow. Clarification is not Pedantry.
• arnorhs 11y ago
  Did not sound snarky at all to me. Very factual, and had a very minimal, neutral tone to it. Also informative to people who don't know echo at all.
• colinramsay 11y ago
  They're not commenting on the quality of Jarvis (an excellent project), but on the headline. One of the key features of Echo, and one which is essential for something like this, is a good microphone. Most off the shelf ones are useless for this, and so the Echo provides fantastic value by delivering not only the voice recognition/action platform, but the hardware to make it work well. I'd challenge someone to make a practical device that leverages Jarvis. Most microphones just aren't up to it.
• eva1984 11y ago
  It is PR to sell one of their products
  • monteslu 11y ago
    It's open source :) https://github.com/monteslu/pagenodes https://github.com/monteslu/pagenodes
• jcrawfordor 11y ago
  I will say, I find the trend of HN posts that say "clone" of some commercial product but are missing significant features to be kind of frustrating. It tends to devalue the work that's actually involved in creating successful projects - and thus the work of software engineering.
  • eterm 11y ago
    Reminds me of the coding horror post, "Code: It's trivial" http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-its-trivial/