Smart lights. Music. Timers. Changing the brightness level using an app sucks. You have to dig out your phone, unlock it, open the app or go the widget, find t

Smart lights. Music. Timers. Changing the brightness level using an app sucks. You have to dig out your phone, unlock it, open the app or go the widget, find the light you want to dim, click on it and then slide the brightness to where you want it. With a voice assistant like Alexa I can just tell it what light or room to dim and what level to dim. It's WAY WAY faster to say "Alexa, dim the kitchen to 50%" than to go through the app. Similarly with music or timers. It's just way easier to tell Alexa to play that radio station or album or song or to set a 10 minute timer than dig through smartphone apps and deal with hooking up speakers somehow. Of course it COULD spy on me, but so could any of my electronics with microphones and a net connection which is most of them these days. What's stopping your smartphone from spying on you or your laptop even with the voice assistant disabled?