> Why do people buy and use these things? I don't own one myself, but I gave my legally blind 80-year-old neighbor an Amazon Dot — after explaining the privacy

> Why do people buy and use these things? I don't own one myself, but I gave my legally blind 80-year-old neighbor an Amazon Dot — after explaining the privacy concerns. He'd never used any internet-connected device, but the voice interface was almost instantly accessible to him. That's a really big deal. For context, he told me that if his 1970s stove breaks, he won't replace it because he won't be able to learn a new stove's interface. He regularly uses it for news headlines, sports scores, and checking the weather. He also uses it to access internet radio stations that play music from his era. That music was unavailable to him previously and now he can access it instantly and for free.