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I bought the one with the screen. It constantly shows advertisements so I can't have it in my line of sight while doing anything else in my home. If you buy a
by akira2501 3y ago
I bought the one with the screen. It constantly shows advertisements so I can't have it in my line of sight while doing anything else in my home. If you buy any personal items be sure to take them out of your amazon "recently viewed" queue immediately.
It shows me triumphant notifications (!) that turn out to just be a request for me to review a product. Yes, that's why I _bought_ this device, so the company I bought it from can use it as a portal to ask me to do free work for them.
It has failed to add any value other than as a device I can use to ensure that our Alexa skills are in fact working or not when I take bug reports out of our queue.
For the amount of counter space this thing swallows I constantly wonder why they couldn't have put a few USB charging ports somewhere on the side of it.
Speaking of USB and/or Bluetooth, why aren't there any "peripherals" for this device? It's just a useless screen connected to a cloud of corporate garbage that no one would ask for and it has zero ability to step outside of this sphere. So, yea, jam it full of "generative" content, how could you possibly make it worse?
- imwillofficial 3y agoI beta tested many of these products and found them so dystopian and useless I refused to ever participate in a beta again.
- wincy 3y agoI got one as a welcome gift for work and my wife ended up smashing it with a hammer because it gave our seven year old unrestricted access to YouTube. She pulled it out of the garbage twice and hid it from us. Thing is durable, she couldn’t actually crack the casing but broke something inside so it stopped working. (To be clear we do let our kid watch YouTube supervised after she’s finished lessons, although not very often)
- rokkitmensch 3y agoTwist: hiding the Alexa in the trash was a sophisticated game to get the kid to develop puzzle solving skills and a rulebreaking ethos.
- wincy 3y agoHah, I’ll admit we didn’t punish her further because we thought “wow she’s very resourceful!”
- emddudley 3y agoI have an Echo Show 8 that I wanted to watch YouTube on, but it doesn't work. Which model can access YouTube?
- qiller 3y agoI just wanted it to show a clock in a huge font so I could see when I needed to rush back into the "office" when taking a break or making coffee. Alexa Show became useless after a while because of all the non-disable content, and it barely even shows the time anymore. I swapped it back to my old Echo Spot (the round screen one). It's great at being a clock.
- Marsymars 3y agoThe Echo Wall Clock is also fantastic at being a clock! Although sadly now discontinued, when mine breaks there doesn't seem to be any comparable replacement from any brand at any price.
- Delphiza 3y agoThe Echo Wall Clock is great! (if a bit ugly) Setting kitchen timers a lot of what we use Alexa for, and the wall clock in the kitchen works well. Dissapointing that it is discontinued!
- vineyardmike 3y ago> why aren't there any "peripherals" for this device They made a bunch of peripherals but they never caught on. They made media remotes, game pads, a sticky note printer, scales, and other things.
- venusenvy47 3y agoI bought one with a 10" screen because I needed a new picture frame. I have mine only showing pictures that I loaded into an Amazon album. I didn't find it too hard to turn off all other stuff, although sometimes it turns back on some other feature which requires me to disable it again from the interface.