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As someone living not in the US, I feel the same. I see all sorts of giveaways and deals (ie, free echo dot if you buy a newspaper subscription), but I've never
by wheybags 6y ago
As someone living not in the US, I feel the same. I see all sorts of giveaways and deals (ie, free echo dot if you buy a newspaper subscription), but I've never met anyone who uses one. Never seen one in a friends house. Here it seems like they're desperately trying to get people to use them (to the point of giving them away), and failing. I figured it was probably a cultural split between US / everywhere else.
Another thing is I think we don't like voice activated control in general. An American colleague used to use voice activated calling all the time on his phone. I've literally never seen anyone else use that, unless they're driving.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoSpidertron voice control when? ;p (Counts as driving..?)
- wheybags 6y agoThis guy is an internet detective :D Could be done as a mod via the lua api, if you really wanted (would need an external relay program to communicate with the voice thing, like eg clusterio does).
- jjcon 6y agoI live in an EU country and travel quite a lot. I see them and google homes very frequently. This article is from Australia. Maybe it is just your circles? Just to add - per-capita as % of internet users market saturation is in the same ballpark between US/EU countries. It was higher than I would have expected even in 2018 (17.2% of Germans with internet access reported having used one regularly) https://contentstorage-nax1.emarketer.com/519874bbcaa13e06b86db0cc99839b9b/4544_original_lazy https://contentstorage-nax1.emarketer.com/519874bbcaa13e06b8...