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Gah, my mother has a few Echoes dotted about her house and it’s the only inanimate object I feel compelled to tell to shut the hell up on a regular basis. Give
by deergomoo 3y ago
Gah, my mother has a few Echoes dotted about her house and it’s the only inanimate object I feel compelled to tell to shut the hell up on a regular basis.
Give me a direct response if warranted, otherwise a simple chime or acknowledgement. Multiple years into ownership no-one wants a “by the way…” with upsells to other Amazon services.
It’s even worse if the reason you were talking to it in the first place is to turn something down so you can actually speak to someone.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoMake a routine with these commands. It has to run daily because those cowards at amazon aren't quite ready to let us off the upsell leash. 1. Set volume to 0 2. "Turn off by the way" 3. Set volume back to your preferred. I wonder what the conversion on 'by the way' is. Like how many BTWs have played and how many customers have taken alexa up on that offer?
- HDThoreaun 3y ago"By the way" is alexa's entire business model. They sell these devices at a loss and don't require a subscription for the nlp so they can "by the way" you into buying random shit. I'm surprised they let you mute it at all, especially after devices lost $10 billion last year.
- cubefox 3y agoI wonder why they sell these things at a loss. Wouldn't they sell at cost?
- blitzar 3y agoI am not really sure why people buy into this. These devices cost next to nothing to make, the royalties to the tax haven holding co and the private jet fuel are thrown in to the "cost" as a write-off and a tax dodge.
- ghaff 3y agoInternal cost accounting is complicated.
- cubefox 3y agoAt 10 billion dollars the accounting doesn't have to be precise.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoThen maybe it should try to make a sale instead of blathering on about how I can ask it what sound does a pig make. They have 15 years of purchase history, prime video usage, and presumably are snooping on what podcasts I play over Echo. They should be able to suck a little less. Any random page of a 20 year old sears catalog would carry more relevance to me than anything Alexa has suggested.
- thefourthchime 3y agoI HATE that it does that, it made me try to move to Homepods, but even with Homebridge I couldn't get everything to work with Homepods. Also, it has its own drawbacks, like no screen to see a timer.