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I assume the strawman you are propping up is a mobile phone. There is a significant difference there of course, which is that the phone performs a function impo
by yborg 6y ago
I assume the strawman you are propping up is a mobile phone. There is a significant difference there of course, which is that the phone performs a function impossible to obtain in any other way, namely mobile telephony. The "smart speaker" performs functions trivially replicated in other ways.
- wvenable 6y agoYes, but the point is that they're so much safer than your mobile phone that the trivial usage is perfectly fine. I have an Alexa and while I only use it for basically trivial things I use it for those trivial things all the time. It's really quite nice to have. I also have my phone on me, all the time, even while at home so really my privacy issues aren't increased by having that Alexa.