They're genuinely pretty great when your hands are busy, or you want to do something relatively far away. 95% of my usage is in the kitchen, and I think both a

They're genuinely pretty great when your hands are busy, or you want to do something relatively far away. 95% of my usage is in the kitchen, and I think both amazon and google are hugely under-valuing that space. My ideal voice assistant would be something like the Fire TV cube (streaming shows along with voice control) where the thing is able to show timers/recipes/unit-conversions picture-in-picture while the show is playing, as I ask. Frankly - Amazon acted like a chicken with its head cut off with the Fire TV cube, it should be exactly what I wanted, but the device is almost laughably bad at basically everything it should excel at, and I still hate them a little for it.