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I'm sure Echo is great if you live in the USA.

• inopinatus 10y ago
  I'll echo that gripe. Amazon have hobbled their ecosystem by the bizarre design decision of mandatory configuration by US zip code. This effectively excludes all non-American users, and makes the barriers for overseas developers prohibitively high. Since I am in Australia, my Echo is good only for parlour tricks and streaming audio: without an accurate time and place, even simple things like checking weather are impossible. Forget about booking a cab, or home automation. So I have not tried to develop for the platform, because I do not develop things I cannot test. Perhaps Amazon were afraid of diluting their product focus. But failure to think globally means your product cannot be a world leader.
• plandis 10y ago
  It's understandably annoying from a consumer perspective but perhaps there are valid reasons for not being in other markets just yet and Amazon decided to launch early and incrementally roll it out?