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> I feel like we're on the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house. Are you aware t
by SwiftyBug 5y ago
> I feel like we're on the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house.
Are you aware that [1]37% of the people in the world has never used the internet?
Also technology is not as accessible everywhere as it is in the US. In my home country, for example, more than 60% of students couldn't catch up with remote classes during the pandemic because they either didn't have a mobile phone (they certainly don't have computers) or they didn't have reliable internet connection. This resulted in the lowest attendance to our SATs in our history. If people still don't have access to entry-level smartphones and internet connection, I doubt they'll have home assistants anytime soon.
While I share your worries of having these devices inside peoples homes, I'd like to point that we are far from "the verge of an age where every single person is used to, and just has an Alexa/google home voice assist in their house".
[1]: https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2021-11-29-FactsFigures.aspx https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2021-11-29-Facts...
- naavis 5y agoSmart speakers are very marginal products even in many very developed but non-English-speaking countries because their native language is not supported. Quick googling says Alexa supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Hindi, Japanese, and Portuguese.