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The 14 biggest announcements from Amazon’s surprise hardware event
- pwned1 8y agoHonestly, I thought reading through this that it was an Onion article. Amazon is now pushing complete and total surveillance of you and your home. By Amazon.
- zerealshadowban 8y agoThe Fire TV recast seems to be a shot across the bow for Tivo and Roku? the multiple speakers and amp seem to be a shot across the bow for Sonos and Bose? The Alexa-everywhere tactics are reminiscent of the early AWS years. The SDKs and platforms for embedded systems are excellent long-term strategy. The integration with Skype and Ring positions the Alexa Show to take over the video communication market. I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't attempted to release a Skype-based home-hub device. I'm also surprised Apple hasn't made more audacious moves towards a home-hub device. The progression of product names is somewhat confusing -- how is the general public to keep track of "new" and "generation N" to understand features?
- stinger 8y agothe goal seems to pair "echo" with as many english words as possible. echo: dot, auto, show, don’t show, plus, minus, sub, stars, galaxy, up Which ones are real and which ones are fake?