I feel the same way. We bought an echo for the kids a month ago. It wore off within a week. They now really only use it occasionally for music. I could be part

I feel the same way. We bought an echo for the kids a month ago. It wore off within a week. They now really only use it occasionally for music. I could be partly to blame for that though because I don't like that fact that every thing they say into the echo is recorded and saved into the cloud so I limited what they could do with it. Don't want all my kids silly activities saved and tracked like that. The Echo gets things wrong a lot more than 5%. I agree, that takes the fun out of it and becomes increasingly annoying. Sometimes, its quicker and easier to simply type in the search in Google. I love my paper books!! I still truly do not understand the full appeal of the IoT. I play with this stuff as a hobby, but I am always asking myself "would, I really use this in real life?" and 95% of the time the answer is no.