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I think there is something to the idea of a beacon in common rooms rather than a cell phone. When i'm at home I rarely have my phone with me. If I am in the ki
by serf 4y ago
I think there is something to the idea of a beacon in common rooms rather than a cell phone.
When i'm at home I rarely have my phone with me. If I am in the kitchen and I need a timer initiated it's simply easier for me to speak the command out loud than it is for me to traipse to the next room for the phone.
Now, if the argument is "I don't know why we need so many competing services that do the same thing." , I agree.
I wish that there was an Echo equivalent that just acted as a dumb thin-ware style client connected to my mobile phone via wifi or whatever that was there only to act as a microphone bridge, with all the heavy work being accomplished by the mobile phone.
- watwut 4y agoI use timer buil in into cooker or oven. Not voice activated, but super practical anyway.
- c22 4y agoMan, and here I am just looking at the wall clock every once in awhile. Honestly if you just stay engaged with the world around you and mindful while you're doing things you develop a strong internal sense of time-passing that makes external crutches unnecessary for most tasks. With a little practice you can get to a similar point with the weather too.
- watwut 4y agoOr, I can set in timer and then go on happily daydreaming or solving puzzles or reading HN. Imo, I win here.
- prmoustache 4y agoHow is an overexpensive electronic waste device an improvement over a simple mechanical timer in your kitchen that will last decades or the builtin timer/programmation of your oven? I mean if the only use of an amazon echo is having a timer, getting weather forecast and playing music this is a really bad financial, privacy and environmental decision.
- dTal 4y agoAnecdotally, having raced my friend who uses Google Home extensively, it is much faster to set a timer on my Pebble by pushing a few 0-latency buttons than to navigate the verbal protocol demanded by these devices (trigger word, pause, "set a timer for <x>", pause, machine verbally confirms timer before starting it). (On a laggy Bangle.js the race would swing the other way. Pebble got so much right.)
- tcrenshaw 4y agoI like my bangle.js2, but I loved my pebble. If only the bangle had more physical buttons.