I'd add a #4 voice control to that. You don't think you need it until you've used it, then you use it and wonder how the hell you ever survived without it. An E

I'd add a #4 voice control to that. You don't think you need it until you've used it, then you use it and wonder how the hell you ever survived without it. An Echo with a couple of smart switches feels like the future. This is one of the sane use cases for the cloud, IMO. Local speech recognition kinda sucks, and expecting consumers to manually update their firmware (since we've taken auto updates off the table) for new improvements is not realistic.