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> Now you can hear notifications and alerts, turn on compatible smart lights, or call a friend, all without pulling out your phone. They’re designed to keep you
by losteric 7y ago
> Now you can hear notifications and alerts, turn on compatible smart lights, or call a friend, all without pulling out your phone. They’re designed to keep you in the moment—so you never miss one.
wow, I just had to laugh at this marketing-speak... "designed to keep you in the moment with even more distractions"
- allenu 7y agoMy regular glasses already keep me in the moment by forcing me to toggle a light switch with my finger. This marketing is such nonsense. They're really reaching to find some utility in something that provides very little.
- trenning 7y agoAmazon has invested billions into the Alexa platform. It's staggering how many people work in the Alexa org. Now they have to try and make some money from all this investment because nobody is replacing their echo every year. They've basically become a parody of themselves trying to dig themselves out of an 'AI' platform that never materialized into much more than hands free timer and audio player. Their way to turn a profit is to shove it into every consumer device they can before consumers realize they don't need 15 different devices to turn on the lights.
- Analemma_ 7y agoIt must drive Amazon and Apple crazy that each has what the other needs. Amazon has a voice assistant that works perfectly, but doesn't have a device ecosystem so it can't have access to any of the data it needs to be truly useful (your calendar, email, etc.). Apple has the device ecosystem, but Siri is hot garbage. It's an interesting dilemma.
- onion2k 7y agoNow they have to try and make some money from all this investment because nobody is replacing their echo every year. I find it very hard to believe Amazon ever planned to make money on the hardware. Alexa is a convenient user interface for subscriptions to Amazon services (Music, Shopping, Fresh, etc). Putting the tech in to more things is an attempt to remove any barrier to buying other stuff from Amazon.
- agumonkey 7y agoThis whole decade is desperate
- maxerickson 7y agoThe invitation only thing sort of implies that it's as much an experiment as anything else. Real world experiments of that sort are a good thing.
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- Traubenfuchs 7y agoI prefer this part where they spin having less than the competition into something positive: > And with no camera or display, you stay in the moment.