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I find Alexa/Echoes great for a highly limited set of use cases. Like, I use it all the time to set timers in my kitchen (it's really nice when you've got like
by aetherson 4y ago
I find Alexa/Echoes great for a highly limited set of use cases. Like, I use it all the time to set timers in my kitchen (it's really nice when you've got like four timers going and when they go off they say their name).
Adding things to grocery lists is great.
We use it to set the light level of our "smart" bedroom light.
Checking weather before you go out when your hands are full of other stuff is nice. A few other things.
- NBJack 4y agoSpot on. I can vouch for all those use cases plus I enjoy my Amazon Music sub on it. Everything else they've added often makes the experience for those very core things worse.
- aetherson 4y agoWe don't get our music through Amazon, so we don't get that use case, but I imagine it'd be nice.
- ghaff 4y agoI don't know about Spotify but you can set things up so that Apple Music is it's default music service, i.e. you can pretty much play music in the same manner as if you had an Amazon subscription. It's still pretty unreliable but you can do it.
- kennend3 4y agoIf you enjoy having to repeat yourself 3 or 4 times to get it to actually work.. you can connect it to Spotify. It use to work great, but the last year i find i need to repeat "play music" several times before if actually plays something. Usually it tells me it is playing music, but doesn't...
- kyriakos 4y agoGrocery list is my no1 user of Google Assistant. The only thing that works everytime. Sometimes I ask general questions while driving and I get a good answer, things that answers questions that come up while taking to another passenger in the car. Single answer questions work well e.g. "what is the diameter of the moon?" (don't judge we talk about weird stuff during long drives).
- mmmlinux 4y agoi agree with the comments about the kitchen timers. being able to set timers with out having to wash my hands or put down what i'm holding is so nice. but beyond that and play music, my siri sphere gets little use.