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Doesn't the FireTV/Stick do full-on Alexa now?

• sailfast 9y ago
  Yes - though it's not listening and you need the voice remote to be in your hand and/or you need to spin up the app on your phone. While that doesn't sound like a barrier to much, it definitely has been for me asking for simple things especially from across the room. Voice interfaces are good for hands-free action, which FireTV doesn't really allow.
  • cbhl 9y ago
    As someone who owns both an Echo and a Fire TV Stick, I found it initially surprising that the Echo couldn't control things on the TV. I also found it surprising that the same APIs returning voice responses had been returning data about things to display on a screen the whole time. This seems like an obvious product for those who completely buy into the Alexa ecosystem.
    • odonnellryan 9y ago
      Yeah. I really meant Alexa being able to control my TV.
• HannibalChew 9y ago
  It does.