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It's not that I care about privacy particularly - it's that I can't imagine the use case for me personally. They could give them out for free and I'd not be in
by Ntrails 8y ago
It's not that I care about privacy particularly - it's that I can't imagine the use case for me personally. They could give them out for free and I'd not be interested in owning one.
- wvenable 8y agoI got one for free; I use it daily for setting all cooking timers and for maintaining my household shopping list. I also use it for playing music in the kitchen. It's pretty fantastic for all those things and I'd probably buy one now if I needed to replace it.
- umanwizard 8y agoThe “killer app” for me is being able to say “Alexa, turn the light off” when reading a book late at night, instead of having to drag myself out of bed to flip the switch.
- bloomer 8y agoYou mean the clapper?
- umanwizard 8y agoA particularly nice clapper that has secondary features like telling you the weather, serving as an alarm, and so on, yeah.
- nerbert 8y agoWhich Siri does anyways.
- blakesterz 8y agoI feel the same way. There's been a few HN threads where everyone chimed in with "here's how I use mine" and each time I read with great interest thinking "These are the people that are going to teach me something new! Something I've been missing because this thing doesn't seem all that useful to me" and I never learned everything new. I don't get the appeal at all, it's the time savings seem to be measured in seconds, and the convenience seems to be so marginal as to be not worth it for me.