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None of my closest 100 friends and family bought either product, which is very strange given our technology backgrounds and the products’ apparent popularity. A
by afpx 9y ago
None of my closest 100 friends and family bought either product, which is very strange given our technology backgrounds and the products’ apparent popularity. A good friend who works in IoT sort of considered it, but then ultimately became unmotivated because she doesn’t yet see the usefulness of consumer IoT.
My guess is that most buyers are much younger than me. Perhaps they seek to be early adopters like I once did. But, values must have also changed. For example, it wasn’t very long ago that the Xbox Kinect was released and many people freaked out by having a corporation freely listen to what they say.
- b4lancesh33t 9y ago> None of my closest 100 friends and family bought either product How do you know that?
- afpx 9y agoBecause I’m close to them. Maybe 100 is a slight overestimate. But, it isn’t all that many, is it? There are 30 people just within 0.5 miles that I visit regularly. Edit: I was totally wrong. I did an informal survey, and several people said they did have them. I just never saw them use them. Just seeing what I want to see ...
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- criddell 9y agoWe bought our first Echo earlier this year and when we went through the configuration were very surprised to see how many of our friends and relatives popped up as contacts for the voice-call feature. None of these people are under 40.
- echosmith 9y agoAre you sure none of those 100 were gifted one?