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So, for me, it is a glorified cooking timer and alarm clock. If I could buy a closed unit that just did that, then I would be happy.

• kevas 7y ago
  You mean.... your phone, right?
  • Karunamon 7y ago
    A cellphone is pretty much the absolute nadir of "closed unit" devices (in the sense the prior poster was describing) that could be possibly imagined.
    • kevas 7y ago
      How else would you use the word "nadir"
      • Karunamon 7y ago
        "Lowest point" basically. I.e. "Political threads are the nadir of discussion on HN"
  • tunesmith 7y ago
    The timer that is part of iOS is not as good as Alexa's. With Alexa you can easily set concurrent timers and label them. Siri doesn't know how to do that.
  • mathgladiator 7y ago
    I don't want to touch the phone with raw meat juice; voice commands plus learning to cook has the potential for amazingness.
    • kevas 7y ago
      I'm going to presume that you have Siri enabled... no touching required, right? Just knuckle the thing. Curl the pinky finger and tap w/ the knuckle. 0_o
      • mathgladiator 7y ago
        I don't have Siri, and I generally don't have my phone near me all the time. Same for the wife, it's super awesome to just be able to talk to Alexa. I share the privacy concerns, so I am hopeful https://mycroft.ai https://mycroft.ai being a suitable replacement as I have ordered and plan to build a better rig to handle the deepspeech.